ARTH 292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stonemasonry, Walter Gropius, World'S Columbian Exposition
10 Dec 2018
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Examining the theory and practice of adolf loos. Arts and craft movement architecture for functional needs. Beautiful but basic composition that can be easily made via industrialization. Volume (space) > mass(weight; the matter; something only from the past) Developed society = no need of ornamentation. Chandelier, scheu house, vienna, 1912: design is based on its function, need to light an area up so put lights on a circular ring, a lot of geometry, opening for the patio ambiguity over the actual usage. Adolf focuses on: abstract aesthetic of volume: but also including his own ideas. Part of his education: adolf comes to chicago in 1893 to understand needs of different people (zoning laws in chicago as well as the year of the worlds columbian exposition) There also seeing marshall field store and the neo romanesque style of it, but this is more robust/crude/raw not as soft and ornamented as the european neo romanesque style.
