Bruno Taut, Glass Pavillion, Cologne, destroyed, Expressionist Architecture
Erich Mendelsohn, Einstein Tower, Potsdam, Expressionist Architecture
Walter Gropius, The Fagus Shoe Factory
Lionel Feininger,
Cathedral, woodcut from the Bauhaus Manifesto
The Bauhaus Basic Course, Josef Albers with students, 1928
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Photogram, Bauhaus
Herbert Bayer, design for a news kiosk, Bauhaus
Marcel Breuer, Wassily Chair, Bauhaus
Marianne Brandt, tea set, Bauhaus
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Electric Table Lamp, Bauhaus
Gunta Stözl, Wall Hanging, Bauhaus
Faculty Apartment for Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Bauhaus campus, Dessau, photographed in 1927
Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus faculty, Bauhaus Campus, Dessau, Bauhaus
Paul Klee,
Ad Parnassum, Bauhaus
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, proposed glass office building for the Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, International Modernism.
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, German Pavillion at the 1929 Barcelona Exhibition
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, International Modernism
Le Corbusier, Unite d'Habitation, Marseilles, International Modernism
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, Bear Run, PA
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN BETWEEN THE WARS
Expressionist Architecture
--glass
--Bruno Taut
--Erich Mendelsohn
The Bauhaus
--Walter Gropius
--Johannes Itten
--Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
--Bauhaus Basic Course
International Modernism
--Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
--Le Corbusier
-----The Radiant City
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Original Futurama
Before it became the namesake of a show on Comedy Central, the Futurama was an enormous series of dioramas in the General Motors pavilion at the 1939 - 1940 World's Fair in New York City (Corona Park in Queens). Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, this huge diorama series was built to be a glimpse 20 years into the future as imagined by General Motors. This was the most popular exhibit at the fair. Visitors stood in line for hours to ride the moving chairs with the speakers telling them all about the wonders of things to come in 1960.
The General Motors Pavilion at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair; note the long lines waiting to get in.
People riding the mobile chairs looking at the dioramas designed by Norman Bel Geddes
Part of Norman Bel Geddes' diorama showing a huge highway intersection flanked by 4 quarter of a mile high skyscrapers in the future, in 1960.
Here is a film about the Futurama produced by General Motors in 1940,
To New Horizons. It starts out in black and white, but the Futurama itself is all filmed in Technicolor.
The USA was still going through the Great Depression during the 1939 - 1940 Fair. This vision of a brighter, more spacious, and more hopeful future filled with opportunity thrilled audiences living in the bleak and cramped world of the 1930s.
This is the future as imagined by a major car manufacturer with lots of emphasis on roads and transportation. After World War II, the United States and almost all of its major cities would be completely rebuilt to accommodate the automobile. Some of Bel Geddes' design is still praised for being so far-sighted, especially in his extensive use of continuous park space in cities and along river fronts. Other aspects might have been just a little too sweeping. There's no room in any of it for historical preservation or for mass transit.
Cover for the guidebook to the "Degenerate Art" exhibition featuring a sculpture by Otto Freundlich who died at Majdanek concentration camp in 1943
Hitler (far right) with Goebbels visiting the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937
Albert Speer with Adolf Hitler, model for the unbuilt Volkshalle (Berlin Dome)
Alberto Giacommetti, Tall Figure
Francis Bacon, Study for a Crucifixion
Le Corbusier, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France
Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Wallace Harrison, and others, The United Nations Headquarters, New York
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, The Seagram Building, New York
