Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright's career lasted from about 1900-1950. Along with FLW came the emergence of modernism. With both the World Wars happening around this time period, the destruction gave way to opportunities for new buildings and new designs. Modernism really embraced industrial design. Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier were the pioneers of this movement and treated like an exclusive club. Those who wanted to follow the movement had to follow the exact rules they set in place. Frank Lloyd Wright created over 1000 structures and 532 works in his career. He began his career working for Adler and Sullivan. When he branched off by himself and create his own company in Oak Park, Illinois, 1893,  he began creating the Prairie style home. These homes blended their structure into the environment and used the same color palettes as the  indigenous plants where the homes were built, primarily in the Midwest. He primarily designed residential buildings but there were a select few commercial buildings as well.

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Fallingwater

Emil Bach House

Taliesin West

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Extra Credit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvQZbC1OOZc
The Fallingwater House - Documentary on Fallingwater

Peer Review:
Katie L: I liked how she talked about how he also designed a lot of the furniture for the homes that he designed as well.
Amanda M: I liked how she touched on his childhood and the pictures she picked were a great supplement to her blog.

Protomodernism

The Protomodernism Movement lasted from 1898-1959. There were several other movements inside of this umbrella movement. The Deutscher Werkbund Movement, The Vienna Secession, and the De Stijl Movement. Protomodernism as a whole, experimented with form and ideas and contained the seeds of Modernism. The Deutscher Werkbund Movement began in 1892 in Munich, Germany then moved to Vienna, Austria 1898 and was known as The Vienna Secession, then moved to Berlin, Germany in 1899. This movement was founded by Herman Muthesius and its purpose was to have the highest quality design to the mass produced output. It protested against artistic establishment and embraced the use of the machine. There was a collaboration between design professional with product manufactures, during this movement, to improve competitiveness of German design. The Vienna Secession was at a time where there were world wide advances in art, history, psychology and philosophy. The movement had no ties to historical or academic styles of Architecture or Interior Design, but an interest in culture and design. There was a unity of the arts and house hold objects were worthy of design. The Vienna Secession was protesting against Historicism while not embracing Art Nouveau. Some notable designers/artists from this movement include; Olbrich, Klimt, Wagner, Loos, Hoffmann and Koloman Moser. The De Stijl Movement lasted from 1917 to 1931 and began in the Netherlands. This movement focused on elementary shapes, colors and flat surfaces (not nature) as well as on the vertical and horizontal line. The major architect of this movement was Gerrit Rietveld and the major artist was Piet Mondrian. Rietveld was the most influential architect of the century and began his career as a cabinet maker in his father's shop. Mondrain was influenced by the Cubist art form. He “Aimed to express equilibrium and harmony as purely as possible," and was also known for his use of primary colors.

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Holli: I liked how she chose the Deutscher Werkbund Movement and the Vienna Secession to focus on. She did a good job at explaining them. 

Ashley: I liked how she goes into detail about the artists and designers of the time. 

Extra Credit:

"America's Castles-The Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce9iyHM5Ge8

Documnetary on the homes of Frank Lloyd Wright 

Art Nouveau

The Art Nouveau movement happened between 1890 and 1910 while Europe was in a time of peace and prosperity. This movement was in rejection to the historical rebirths of design and was its completely own, new thing, which took inspiration from nature. Flowers, birds, vines and insects were used as sources of inspiration for design. Artists and Designers also drew inspiration from Japanese art. Belgim and France were the leaders of this movement and Paris and Nancy were the centers of Art Nouveau. The term comes from a shop in Paris. Victor Horta was a Belgian architect, designer, and teacher who did extensive work during this movement. He was the most influential designer of this period. He used unique iron railings and hardware,stenciled walls and ceilings, and mosaic tile patterns on the floors, walls and ceilings. Henry Van de Velde was a significant Belgian practitioner who began as a painter. He designed his own house in 1894 including everything down to the cookware. Hector Guimard was the most significant figure in Paris. He was an architect, designer and writer. He designed residential and street furniture. Guimard’s designs looked handcrafted but were made in factories. He also designed the entrance kiosks and detail elements of the Paris Subway. Antoni Gaudi was the most dominant designer in Spain. He used flowing curves and unusual decorative details to create structures that resembled fantasy.

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Extra Credit:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ir9t4_bbc-sex-and-sensibility-the-allure-of-art-nouveau-1of3-paris-pdtv-xvid-ac3_tech

A BBC documentary about the Art Nouveau movement, "Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau"

Peer Review:

Angie: I liked how she went into detail about the painters who influenced the movement. Her pictures were also really great.

Tiziri: I liked how she split up her paragraphs with pictures and them wrote about the pictures. Great idea!