De Stijl

De Stijl
Dutch for “The Style” (also known
as Neoplasticism)
1917-1931
Sought to express a new utopian
ideal of spiritual harmony and
order. They advocated pure
abstraction and universality by a
reduction to the essentials of form
and colour — they simplified visual
compositions to the vertical and
horizontal directions, and used only
primary colors along with black
and white.
Piet Mondrian, Composition With
Yellow, Blue and Red, 1939-42.
Goal: to create a precise,
mechanical order lacking in the
natural world.
Piet Mondrian,
Composition No. 10,
1939-42.
Piet Mondrian,
Broadway Boogie
Woogie, 1943.
Mondrian, Evening, 1908.
Mondrian, Blue Tree, 1908.
Mondrian, Gray Tree, 1911.
Mondrian, Horizontal Tree, 1911.
Mondrian, Flowering Tree, 1912.
Mondrian, Composition in Blue, Gray, and Pink, 1913.
Gerrit Rietveld
De Stijl Chair, 1917.
Gerrit Rietveld, Schroder House, 1923-24.
Matt Curless,
Mondrian Chair, 2005.
NEO-DE STIJL
Malevich and SUPREMATISM
Malevich, Self-Portrait,
1933.
Malevich, Supremism,
1916.
Malevich and SUPREMATISM
The object in itself is
meaningless... the ideas of
the conscious mind are
worthless''.
Malevich, Self-Portrait,
1933.
What Malevich wanted was
a non-objective
representation, “the
supremacy of pure feeling.''
Malevich, Black
Square, 1913.
Malevich, Supremist
No. 58, 1916-17.
Intro in Modern Architecture
The massive development of cast iron
led to a reduction in price, which
allowed many architects to design taller
buildings.
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential
Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894. MODERNISM
Intro in Modern Architecture
Louis Sullivan
Considered “The Father of Modern
Architecture”
“Form follows Function”
Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and
influence on the PRAIRIE SCHOOL
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential
Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894. MODERNISM
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential
Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894. MODERNISM
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894. MODERNISM
Louis Sullivan, The Guaranty (Prudential Building), Buffalo, NY, 1894. MODERNISM
Bauhaus
German style movement from 1919-1933
All of the Bauhaus directors were
architects. (“The ultimate aim of all creative
activity is a building”)
Walter Gropius, Founder
Bauhaus Logo
Bauhaus
20th Century contributions include the CANTILEVER CHAIR
Mies Van Der Rohe
Seagram Building, 1958.
“LESS is MORE”
Empire State Building
Mies Van Der Rohe
German Pavilion, 1929. BAUHAUS
Mies Van Der Rohe
Barcelona Chair, 1929.
BAUHAUS
Prairie School architects are
usually marked by:
 horizontal lines
 flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging
eaves
 windows grouped in horizontal bands,
integration with the landscape
 solid construction & indigenous materials
 Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and
relate to the native prairie landscape.
The term "Prairie School" was not actually used by
these architects to describe themselves ; the term was
coined by H. Allen Brooks, one of the first architectural
historians to write extensively about these architects
and their work.
The Prairie school shared an embrace of handcrafting
and craftsman guilds as a reaction against the new
assembly line, mass production manufacturing
techniques, which they felt created inferior products and
dehumanized workers.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Considered best architect of
last 125 years
Known for ‘Prairie Style’
architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright, Darwin D. Martin House, 1904.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1906.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, 1937.