ARCH 214bg Study Guide - Quiz Guide: S. R. Crown Hall, Seagram Building, Villa Savoye
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One of the most important architects in 20th century along with frank lloyd wright. Bauhaus saw themselves as perpetuating handcrafts like in the gothic era. All ideas in arts and crafts (religion-driven) generate/circulate into modernism. The bauhaus think differently and changed the profession in the process. Historical reference was not allowed at all. Torn down by nazi or occupied as headquarters. Flat roof, white walls, no historical reference (tied into socialist movement), The kunstverein dessau by walter gropius morphous. Walter gropius became chairman of the gsd at harvard in 1938. Last director of the bauhaus, later became the director of itt and armour institute. Modernism is seen to be dangerous, too modern and liberal. To restore old glory = it"s better to remind people of the country"s greatest history. Housing exhibition/proposal for workers in modernism, a collaboration project. Worked with j. p. oud (dutch), and le corbusier(self-taught swiss architect) Both invited by mies to work on the project.
