[JAV131H1] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (45 pages long!)
Document Summary
New methods of production: industrial, mass production, standardisation. New needs of changing societies: urban middle class. Connection between development and innovation of new materials. Interval period between arts and crafts and modern architecture, (19th century and. Failed attempt, new attempt of starting a new age of architecture/new styles. Art nouveau: urban cosmopolitan style, and cultural style. Glasgow, brussels, paris, vienna, barcelona: urban setting for a new style. Isolated starting point of new development, cosmopolitan air: charles rennie mackintosh, His own style completely different from existing style/originality/inventiveness. Extremely successful at the start of their career, but struggled to nd work after or during the first world war (applies to other famous architects at the time) Mackay hugh baillie scott had a similar style like mackintosh. Victor horta, founding fathers of art nouveau in brussels. Designing something that is different from the previous generation, hence being noticed and introduced into the world of architecture.
