ARTH 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Prairie School

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 2610
• Professor: Michael Windover

Document Summary

Key ideas for today: national romanticism and desire to create a national style, prairie school, art nouveau of gaudi. Dodge house, irving gill, los angeles, 1915: geometric, simple, planar, early, asymmetrical, ea(cid:396)ly ad(cid:448)o(cid:272)ate fo(cid:396) (cid:396)ei(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:272)ed (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)ete, (cid:862)tilt sla(cid:271)(cid:863) te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue, deeply interested in the region: responding to the light and landscape. Stockholm town hall, ragnar ostberg, sweden, 1909: national romanticism; abstracted vernacular, responds to swedish culture, appropriate expression of the region, unique composition, specific, eclectic references, civic values of stockholm, medieval tradition. Grundtvig church, peder vilhelm jensen-klint, copenhagen, 1913: new but not modern, responds to the vernacular and creates something new on a massive scale, something regional to express national style. Helsinki railway station, eliel saarinen, helsinki, 1904: stripped classicism, between traditional and modern. Sagrada familia, antoni gaudi, barcelona, begun 1884: cruciform plan, foundations of a neo-gothic church/crypt. Idiosyncratic architecture: regionalism: catalan culture, tree of life.