20 th Century U.S. Architecture
Feb 14, 2016
20th Century U.S. Architecture
19th century Revivalism/Historicism
SteelForm Follows FunctionModernist Terra Cotta decorationsNot historicizing
Frank Lloyd Wright, Wm. Winslow House, River Forest, IL, 1893
Prairie SchoolCantileveringRibbon FenestrationOrganic plan/spacesHearthHorizontalityIndustrial and naturalSite specific
Victorian Houses
Robie House, Chicago
Unity Temple, Oak ParkReinforced Concrete
Florida Southern College, Lakeland Florida, begun 1938
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, 1941
“less is more”
“less is a bore”
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)
Michael Graves, Portland Service Building