ARCH 350 1st Edition Lecture 12Outline of Last Lecture I. German Expressionism ArchitectureA. Bruno Tauta. Glass Pavilion Deutscher Werkbund ExhibitionB. Hans Poelziga. Theater in the Grosse SchauspielhausC. Erich Mendelsohn a. Einstein Tower, Potsdamb. Schocken Department Store ChemintzD. Mies van der Rohea. Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper drawingE. Various Architectsa. Weissenhof SiedlungII. Walter Gropius and Bauhaus School A. Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyera. Werkbund Exhibition Building Cologne, GermanyB. Walter Gropiusa. BauhausOutline of Current Lecture I. Constructivism: RussiaA. Vladimir TatlinII. SuprematismA. Kasimir Malevich B. Konstantin Melnikova. Rusakov ClubC. El Lissitzkya. Design for a Lenin Tribuneb. Cloud-hangerIII. De Stijl [Neo-Plasticism ] HollandA. Piet MondrianB. Gerrit RietveldThese 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.Current LectureEarly Modernism: New Objectivity and De StjilI. 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 trianglesA. Vladimir Tatlina. 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 designersII. SuprematismB. Kasimir Malevich C. Konstantin Melnikovb. Rusakov ClubD. El Lissitzkyc. Design for a Lenin Tribuned. Cloud-hangerIII. De Stijl [Neo-Plasticism ] HollandGeneral 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 colorsCharacteristics- 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 balanceColors1. Yellow: Vertical2. Blue: Horizontal firmament3. Red: Mating of yellow and blueA. Piet Mondriana. Pier and Oceanb. Composition with linesc. Lozenge with Gray Linesd. Lozenge with Light Colors and Gray Linese. Tableau No. 1f. Composition 2g. Composition with White, Back & RedB. Gerrit Rietvelda. Blue and Red chairb. Schroder House- Interior: operable panels- Flexibility of space- continuation in next
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