Modernist Architecture

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Falling Water.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous building. (1934-37)

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

A really cool building. (1959)

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The Johnson Wax Headquarters. (1936-39) Interior.


BAUHAUS

Above: Bauhaus Dessau

The second location for the Bauhaus school of arts crafts, and architecture (1919-1933) formed by Walter Gropius. There was no distinction between arts and crafts, and the art was to be designed for the working class.

Right: Harkness Commons and the Graduate Center (1950) at Harvard University by Walter Gropius and the Architects Collaborative after the Nazi takeover of Germany and the closing of the Bauhaus in 1933.


Buckminster Fuller

Fuller (a.k.a. Bucky) coined the phrase "spaceship earth". He was a designer, inventor, architect and philosopher. He was best known for his three-wheeled, bullet-shaped car known as the Dymaxion Car, and for the design of the geodesic dome which many buildings have been based on since. Other designs of his include the Dymaxion Map, the only flat map in which there are no continent or distance distortions.

The U.S. Pavilion (below) at Expo '67 in Montreal, was a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.


Charles Rennie Mackintosh

The Glasgow School of Art Building.(1897-99, 1907-09).

Mackintosh designed everything in the building from the clocks to the tables and chairs.

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