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015 BIRTH OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE Machine Age –Machine tamed, adapted to everyday life –Machine worship Materials –Visual aesthetic – machine housings –“House is a machine for living in” Modernist Doctrine –Mechanomorphic architecture = Man’s salvation –Embodied revolution –Models: Architecture as sculpture, Architecture as painting
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19 TH CENTURY FORERUNNERS Viollet – Le – Duc –Intellectual, artistic –Rebellious, refused Beaux-artes study –Rationalist architecture William Morris –Reformist, moral passion –Anti-industrialist and anti-historical –Emphasized craftsmanship Red House, 1859, designed by Philip Webb
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ENGLISH DOMESTIC REVIVAL: 1870 – 1900 Based on small cottages, agrarian and modest monastic buildings Informal and asymmetrical – comfortable Exuded English tradition Based on 16yh and 17 th century England –Old English – Rustic Richard Norman Shaw –Leyswood, Sussex, England 1868 »Picturesque, saddle roofs, chimney stacks »Studied composition with rhythms, asymmetries. –Queen Anne – Formal Shaw’s House - 1874 Houses at Shackleford – 1897 –Charles Voysey
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LEYSWOOD 1868
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BEDFORD PARK HOUSE - QUEEN ANNE
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The Orchard Charles Voysey
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Shingle Style U.S. –Blending of Queen Anne and Old English –Desire to retreat to non-industrial setting –Wood framing with more freedom in plan, mass and decoration –Wooden shingles, traditional American material McKim, Mead, and White –Newcomb House – 1880 –William G. Low House - 1887 Peabody and Stearns –Kragsyde
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Henry Hobson Richardson –Trained at Ecole des Beaux-Artes –Last great traditional architect –Noted for stone construction design Stoughton House 1882 Richardsonian Romanesque –Rustication, rounded arches, and colonnettes Trinity Church, Boston 1873 Marshall Field Warehouse, Chicago 1885
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