017 MODERNISM Early Frank Lloyd Wright Youngest member of Chicago School Most futuristic of modernists House designer Anglo-American influence Influences.

017 MODERNISM

• Early Frank Lloyd Wright– Youngest member of “Chicago School”– Most futuristic of modernists– House designer – Anglo-American influence– Influences – Froebel Blocks, Japanese Architecture,

Louis Sullivan

• Prairie House Design Concepts– New American Architecture– Horizontal Planes mimic prairie– Central fireplace– Pinwheel design– Hidden entrances– No basement– Open floor plan– Furniture integration– Geometric forms

• Fantasy and Expressionism in Europe• Experimental forms• Return to nature• Intense exaggeration of effects

– Art Nouveau 1890’s – 1910• France, Belgium, Spain

– Expressionism• 3 central themes

– Creature, Cave, Crystal

– German Movement

FROEBEL BLOCKS

JAPANESE TEA HOUSE

LARKIN BUILDING 1904

WINSLOW HOUSE 1893

FRONT ELEVATION REAR ELEVATION

WILLITS HOUSE 1902

TASSEL HOUSE 1892

CASA BATTLO 1905

CHURCH OF THE SAGRADA FAMILIA 1884 - 1910