ARTH 292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Roman Klein, Great Depression, Entablature
6 Dec 2015
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Bruno taut alpine architecture 1919: important civic role played by architecture, we have a range of ways where architects are depicting utopias, manifestos and utopias come in waves. Why is it that the ideas of utopia start to disappear in the second half of 20th century: cold war crack down of communists, great depression people did not believe in such utopia anymore. Tzars were considered to be royal rulers who were extremely corrupt who had mass wealth with the work of the proletarian. Muir and mirielees department store. moscow. 1906-8: similar to bon marche, enormous window tells us there is skeletal structure, some historian say that in fact this is the fa ade with pure skeleton structure in russia. Snowy street of moscow in 1910: department stores, thriving middle class, street scape not much different from chicago or paris, buildings of different style historicism which is somewhat tied to industrial capitalism.
