ARTH 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Weissenhof Estate, Ernst May
6 Feb 2017
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When identifying dates they can be within five years; if there is a range, pick one date. To fully identify a monument provide monument name, architect, date and city. Key points for today: weissenhofsiedlung & urban planning, ciam, modernism in scandinavia, modernism in the uk and british empire, modern living and science. Die wohnung exhibition: mies overseeing the projects, wants to make it international, bauhaus influenced by de stijl & constructivism. Oud, weissenhofsiedlung, 1927: spare, repetitive units, very industrial. Oud, hook of holland, 1924: long strip, ocean liner imagery, horizontality, machine, industrial objects (cid:862)on future ar(cid:272)hite(cid:272)ture and its ar(cid:272)hite(cid:272)tural possi(cid:271)ilities(cid:863) by j. j. p. Oud 1921: objects bring to bear on architecture a pressure towards abstraction, reacting against classicism, pristine forms in the light of day, expressionism, connection of work to the place they live, elementary colour scheme. At this time the science behind building and mass producing housing was very important. Frankfurt kitchen, margarete schutte-lihotzky, 1926: designed for liberating the housewife.
