Modern architecture

MODERN ARCHITECTURE

• Walter Gropius, BAUHAUS 1919-1933
• Revolutionary Russia – Suprematism, Constructivism

Bauhaus manifesto by Walter Gropius

Lyonel Feininger “Cathedral” 1919

Key ideas of BAUHAUS

• Unity of Creativity and Manufacturing

• Linking theoretical and intellectual pursuits with practical skills

• Emphasizing experiment and problem solving

1st phase of Bauhaus: Weimar 1919-1925

Directed by Walter Gropius from 1919-1928

Grand Ducal Saxon school of arts and crafts, Henry Van de Velde, Weimar

Johannes Itten, “VORKURS”

From 1919 to 1922, Itten taught at the Bauhaus, developing the innovative "preliminary course” which was to teach students the basics of material characteristics, composition, and color

Gergard Marcks

Established a ceramic workshop at the Bauhaus school

Oskar Schlemmer,

Head of the Theater workshop,

Das Triadische Ballet

The Triadic Ballet

Sommerfeld House, Berlin-Dahlem, W.Gropius, A.Meyer, 1920-1922

2nd and 3rd phases: Dessau 1925-1932, Berlin 1932-1933

With a new building inaugurated in the industrial town of Dessau in 1925,

architecture becomes part of the curriculum.

Second director of Bauhaus: Hannes Meyer, 1928-30

House Gropius, Dessau

UNOVIS (Utverditeli Novogo Iskusstva [Advocates of New Art], also known as POSNOVIS, Posledovateli Novogo Iskusstva [Followers of the New Art], and MOLPOSNOVIS [Young Followers of New Art]) was a short-lived but influential group of Russian artists founded by Kazimir Malevich

The emblem of the UNOVIS

Lamtsov. Abstractive exercise to detect the mass and weight, 1922

K.Malevich. Suprematist composition

SUPREMATISM

Was an art movement focused on basic

geometrical forms painted in a limited range

of clolors

/ Elementarism / Rationalism -- More utopian, spiritual, often mystical,

abstract

Vicrory over the Sun, Suprematist ballet

Ilya Chashnik, suprematist architectural model

Kazimir Malevich, Architecton

Theo Van Doesburg

ASNOVA – Association of New

Architects, architectural association in the Soviet Union, which was active in the 1920s and early 1930s, commonly called 'the Rationalists'.

CONSTURCTIVISM

/ Productivism: -- Utilitarian, revolutionary, materialistic, engineering & construction.

Sought a communitarian socialist art.

Tatlin Tower

Narkomfin House

Moisei Ginzburg

Zuev’s House by Ilya Golosov, 1925-27

Konstantin Melnikov,

Melnikov House

Soviet Pavilion at the Expo in Paris 1925