Beginnings of Modern Architecture and Design

The 1893 Columbian Exhibition, Chicago

Daniel Burnham, The Reliance Building, Chicago

Louis Sullivan, The Wainwright Building, Saint Louis

Louis Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott Building, Chicago

William Morris, The Green Dining Room, Arts and Craft Movement

Phillip Webb and William Morris, Red House, Bexleyheath, England, Arts and Craft Movement

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow School of Art, Library

Henry Van de Velde, poster, Art Nouveau

Victor Horta, Tassel House, Brussels, Belgium, Art Nouveau

Antonio Gaudi, Casa Mila Apartments, Barcelona, Art Nouveau

Josef Hoffmann, Stoclet House, Brussels, Belgium, Vienna Secession

Otto Wagner, lobby of the Postal Savings Bank, Vienna

Adolph Loos, The Steiner House, Vienna

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Chicago

Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, dining room, old photograph, Chicago



BEGINNINGS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Chicago
--1893 Columbian Exhibition
--balloon frame
--steel frame
--Daniel Burnham
--Louis Sullivan
Arts and Craft Movement
--William Morris
--Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Art Nouveau
--Henry Van de Velde
--Antonio Gaudi
Vienna Design
--Vienna Secession
--Josef Hoffmann
--Otto Wagner
--Adolph Loos
Frank Lloyd Wright
--Prairie Style House

Read Chapters 4 and 8 in the textbook.



Loie Fuller Dances The Serpentine

Filmed by the inventor of motion pictures, Louis Lumiere in 1896. Loie Fuller was an American dancer who choreographed her programs with the Art Nouveau taste for whirling and whiplash lines and forms. She sometimes wore elaborate costumes and used multicolored lights, dazzling the Paris audiences who crowded into her shows. The color in this film was added by hand later.





Loie Fuller was a huge hit in Paris and the public idolized her. Below is an Art Nouveau lamp known as a "Loie Fuller lamp," one of the first designed for electric light bulbs. It shows her dancing something like The Serpentine. Bulbs were screwed into sockets hidden in the folds