ARCH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Villa Savoye, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Walter Gropius

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Architecture
• Course: ARCH 217
• Professor: Christopher Yip

Document Summary

Lecture 10: modernism 2: the international style exhibition. Crucial in spreading images of modernist architecture in the us. New style hold common principles from europe to north america to asia. Not symmetrical, but there was still regularity, often in the structure. Mass vs volume use of load0bearing wall emphasizes mass, use of skeletal structure with curtain wall emphasizes volume. History styles use axial symmetry, in international style, instead of symmetry there is a regularity derived from regularity of underlying structure. Expressionist phase after wwi, then develops more abstract style. Emigrates to us in 1937, becomes professor at armour institute (now illinois institute of. Unbuilt projects were his most successful or interesting. Planning not organized on a grid, original idea was that all the house would sit on open space. Bolt to represent the weimar republic in an international context. Columns are structural, cruci x shape, covered in chrome sheet. Interested in new spatial compositions, similar to walter gropius.