The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 146 - 147 Flashcards
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Modernist Architecture: Geometry to Live In
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- new International Style (1920s)
- design gave form to the Machine Age by rejecting all historical ornament
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Gropius: Bauhaus Design
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- Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
- director of Bauhaus school of design
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Mies: Less is More
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- Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
- colleague of Gropius
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Le Corbusier: A Machine for Living
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- Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
- known for defining a house as “a machine for living”
- designed homes to resemble machines
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
- most far-reaching contributions were busting wide open boxy floor plans designing site-specific buildings that seem to grow naturally out of their location
- he made rooms flow
- style is impossible to categorize
