History Exam
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hist285_spring2010_week7_modernism.pptxHIST 285 - Technology in Historical Perspective
Department of History and Politics
“Materials of Modernism”
I. Introduction
1. “Technological fundamentalism”
David Orr’s Article on JSTOR
Amory Lovins, “nuclear fusion is like using a chain saw to cut butter.”
2. Modernism
II. Steel
1. Henry Bessemer
A. Volume versus Quality: Railroads in the USA
III. Glass
A. Gatherers, Blowers,
Cutters, and Flatteners
B. Blowing machine
C. Colburn machine
D. Plate Glass
IV. Modernism in architecture
A. Futurists
B. De Stijl
1. Piet Mondrian
2. J.J.P. Oud
The Rietveld Schröder House. The only building realised according to the principles of De Stijl
Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930
Weissenhof Row Houses · Stuttgart, Germany
