These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I. German Expressionism Architecture A. Bruno Taut a. Glass Pavilion Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition B. Hans Poelzig a. Theater in the Grosse Schauspielhaus C. Erich Mendelsohn a. Einstein Tower, Potsdam b. Schocken Department Store Chemintz D. Mies van der Rohe a. Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper drawing E. Various Architects a. Weissenhof Siedlung II. Walter Gropius and Bauhaus School A. Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyer a. Werkbund Exhibition Building Cologne, Germany B. Walter Gropius a. Bauhaus Outline of Current Lecture I. Constructivism: Russia A. Vladimir Tatlin II. Suprematism A. Kasimir Malevich B. Konstantin Melnikov a. Rusakov Club C. El Lissitzky a. Design for a Lenin Tribune b. Cloud-hanger III. De Stijl [Neo-Plasticism ] Holland A. Piet Mondrian B. Gerrit Rietveld Current Lecture ARCH 350Early Modernism: New Objectivity and De Stjil I. Constructivism: Russia - Social ideals - New social order - Post-Revolutionary atmosphere - Ideas of basic design derived from abstract art (Suprematism) - Theories based on a belief in a universal aesthetic language - Materials including: wood, celluloid, nylon, plexi-glass, tin, cardboard, aluminum, electronics and chrome - Forms favored basic shapes: squares, rectangles, circles and triangles A. Vladimir Tatlin a. Model for a Monument to the Third International - Intended to be 400 meters tall (taller than the Eiffel Tower) - Painted red (the colour symbolizing the Revolution) - This tower project, with its dramatic proposal for the use of new materials and construction methods, strongly influenced young Russian designers II. Suprematism B. Kasimir Malevich C. Konstantin Melnikov b. Rusakov Club D. El Lissitzky c. Design for a Lenin Tribune d. Cloud-hanger III. De Stijl [Neo-Plasticism ] Holland General Facts - It was guided by painter, sculptors, designer, typographer, architects, critic, and writer - loose affiliation of beliefs, and a broadly shared style of abstract and rectangular emphasis - Chief among the artists were the painters Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, and the architect Gerrit Rietveld - Idea of the universality by a reduction to the essential of forms and colors Characteristics - Denude nature in all of forms and have only the style- Search for an aesthetic renovation and the configuration of a new order of universal values - lines, planes and cubes - Asymmetric compositions, but with great sense of balance Colors 1. Yellow: Vertical 2. Blue: Horizontal firmament 3. Red: Mating of yellow and blue A. Piet Mondrian a. Pier and Ocean b. Composition with lines c. Lozenge with Gray Lines d. Lozenge with Light Colors and Gray Lines e. Tableau No. 1 f. Composition 2 g. Composition with White, Back & Red B. Gerrit Rietveld a. Blue and Red chair b. Schroder House - Interior: operable panels - Flexibility of space - continuation in next