Modernism in Architecture. Old Toronto City Hall, 1899. Romanesque Revival style.

Modernism in Architecture

Old Toronto City Hall, 1899. Romanesque Revival style

Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1885

Flat Iron Building,

N.Y.C., 1902New

technology: steel girder skeletons...

New technology, old fashioned styles…

Antoni Gaudi, 1905

Breaking with the past; new design aesthetics.

Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila Apartments, 1905 - 07

C.R. Mackintosh; Glasgow School

of Art, 1896 - 1910

Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House, 1908 - 1910

Frank Lloyd Wright: Robie House, 1908 - 1910

Frank Lloyd Wright: Guggenheim Museum, 1956-59

Bauhaus School of Art and Design Dessau, Germany, 1925

Bauhaus Design

Le Corbusier: The International Style Villa Savoye, 1929

Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye interior, 1929

Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

Le Corbusier: Unité d’Habitation, 1947-52

Philip Johnson: Glass House, 1949

Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, 1950

Mies van der Rohe: sketch of a

glass tower

Mies van der Rohe: TD Centre,

Toronto, 1967

Le Corbusier’s vision of Paris

Nathan Philips Square, Toronto

Government Center, Boston

Oscar Niemeyer : Brazilia

Oscar Niemeyer : Brazilia

Jane Jacobs said: Modernism didn’t work.