ARC251H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Henry Van De Velde, Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner
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Le doux salt works stone carved into water pipes, showing salt water but not functional symbolizing the economic production of salt, gov control over resources. ^place of ornament is clear, wall has a function and has ornament on it. Today - end of 19th century, early 20th century: critic of arch, painting, sculpture, he disiked the 19th century, mechanization, industrial labour working class turned to proletariat, against the modern world. John ruskin: paradox because he used photography, ruskin hates how machines can mass produce something, he wants to see the traces of human work on ornament, the craftsman acting as individual. France 1890s clash: world exhibition, the gallery of machines, appears modern. Art nouveau: used to describe these buildings. Henry van de velde: architect, designer, belgium, worked across europe, his influences nviollet le duc: structural rationalism, every part of the building i clear and showing how the forces work.
