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“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
Nuclear power, lights, engines, electricity….architecture, decorative mirror
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II. Steel
1. Henry Bessemer
A. Volume versus Quality: Railroads in the USA
Challenge: how to make a lot of them and make them cheap (with less fuel and high quality steel), efile tower, engine steel to convert
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III. Glass (wavy,
not like glass nowadays)
A. Gatherers, Blowers,
Cutters, and Flatteners
(not by hand,
big pumping machine)
B. Blowing machine
C. Colburn machine (
infinite glass pouring out)
D. Plate Glass
Engine technology, in 19th century, industrialization,
Replace gathers and blowers, cut few labor force,
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IV. Modernism in architecture
A. Futurists
(group of italians write about in essays in architecture) theoretical review more than actual products)
B. Filippo Marinetti
B. De Stijl (means style)
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
1905 Einstein
Color, line, shape
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C. Bauhaus
1. Elementarism
Walter Gropius’ School in Dessau, Germany
Ivan Chernikov, 1933, Fantasy #67: Linear Resolution of 3-Dimensional Architectural Rendering in Axiometric Perspective
Art is built in the structure, lights vs. sun light
1. Standardization: build the city (streets, houses,build in a more standard way)
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D. New York World’s Fair
1. “World of Tomorrow” 1939 (Video)
City of 1960, safety, speed, agricultural is scientific (genetic engineering)
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V. Conclusions
