Modern Movements
Cards (34)
- Bungalow
- A detached, low-rise (single or one-and-a-half stories) house
- Prairie Style
- Characteristics:
- Horizontal lines
- Gently sloping roofs
- Broad overhanging eaves
- Ribbon windows (long horizontal bands)
- Integration with the landscape
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Father of Prairie style
- Acknowledged master of the prairie house
- Frederick C. Robie House
- By Frank Lloyd Wright
- Best example of prairie style
- Usonian House
- Popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright
- Cost-efficient style due to the economic depression in America in 1936.
- Characteristics:
- No attics
- No basements
- Open carport
- Little ornamentation
- Cotswold Style (Storybook Style)
- A unique style based on houses from the Cotswold region of England built of local yellow limestone.
- Characteristics:
- Steep gables
- Chimneys
- Stone-finished
- Foursquare Style or Prairie Box
- A reaction against the ornate elements of the revival styles and incorporates elements of the Prairie and the Craftsman styles
- An extremely simple form, energy and resource efficient, easily standardized, and economical to build.
- A popular mail-order era style
- When one was ordered, it came in a boxcar with a book of directions and all the parts pre-cut and numbered for self-assembly.
- The largest mail-order house catalog companies were Sears and Aladdin.
- Characteristics:
- Front porch
- Pyramidal hip roof
- Cube shape
- Large central dormer
- Art Deco
- Style that first appeared in France before World War I
- Represented luxury, glamour and exuberance in technological progress
- Characteristics:
- Sleek and linear
- Geometric shapes
- Streamlined forms
- Vivid colors
- General Electric Building
- By John W. Cross
- Has lightning bolt motifs depicting the electricity of radio transmission
- Chrysler Building
- Stunning statement of Art Deco style by William Van Alen
- The tallest building in the world in 1930
- American Radiator Building
- By Raymond Hood
- Finished with black granite and black bricks symbolizing coal and gilded terra cotta and bronze plating symbolizing fire
- City Hall of Buffalo
- By Dietel, Wade & Jones
- 32 stories high and built with no air-conditioning system
- Exterior decoration is inspired by Native American elements
- Empire State Building
- By Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
- 102 stories high
- The world’s tallest for a record of 40 years until the completion of the World Trade Center in 1972
- Golden Gate Bridge
- By Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow and Charles Ellis
- "Possibly the most beautiful, the most photographed” bridge in the world
- Metropolitan Theater
- By Juan Arellano
- One of the few remaining Art Deco buildings in the Philippines
- Ceiling details of Philippine fruits
- Rizal Memorial Stadium
- Restored 2019
- Only art deco sporting facilities in South East Asia
- Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne
- Late type of art deco architecture
- Characteristics:
- Curving forms
- Long horizontal lines
- With nautical concepts
- Subdued colors, white, beige
- Round edges
- Corner windows
- Coca-Cola Building
- By Robert V. Derrah
- Designed like a ship with portholes
- Greyhound Bus Terminal
- By W.S. Arrasmith
- World’s largest bus terminal
- Manila Jai Alai Building
- By Welton Becket and Walter Wurdemann
- The finest building of this style in Asia
- Demolished in 2000
- The four story building was said to be one of the most beautiful Jai Alai frontons in the world, complete with gaming rooms, 4 restaurants, 4 bars and a roof garden.
- Googie Architecture or Doo Wop or Populuxe
- Undisputed “look of tomorrow”
- Popular among motels, coffee shops, carwashes, gas stations
- A roadside attraction to entice travelers to stop and buy
- Characteristics:
- Cantilevered elements
- Parabolic boomerang shapes
- Bold, neon colors
- Whiz-bang angles
- Inspired by cars, jets, space and atomic age
- Union 76 Gas Station
- By Gin Wong of William L. Pereira and Associates
- Roof design was originally intended for The Los Angeles International Airport
- Theme Bldg. Control Tower, LAX International Airport
- By Paul Williams and Welton Becket of Pereira and Luckman Associates
- Resembles a flying saucer that has landed on its four legs
- McDonald's, Downey
- By Stanley Clark Meston
- Oldest surviving branch and the 3rd one built.
- Has 60 foot high neon sign with "Speedee the Chef" mascot
- Novelty Architecture or Mimetic or Programmatic Architecture
- Characteristics:
- Suggest shapes associated with their products or functions.
- Designed to advertise to attract potential customers
- Often serve as landmarks
- The Big Duck
- By Smith & Yeager for duck farmer Martin Maurer
- Used as a shop to sell ducks and duck eggs
- International Style
- Developed in Europe and the U.S and became the dominant tendency in Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century.
- Characteristics:
- Rectilinear forms
- Devoid of ornamentation
- Open interior spaces
- Visually weightless with cantilever construction
- Glass and steel (skin and bone)
- Farnsworth House
- By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was owned by Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a nephrologist
- Iconic masterpiece of the International Style
- Sears Tower
- By SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merril)
- World's tallest building from 1974 to 1998
- World Trade Center
- The twin 110-story towers used a tube-frame structural design.
- It was the tallest building until the completion of the Sears Tower in 1974
- A complex of 7 buildings.
- On the morning of September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing 767 jets into the complex, one into each tower, in a coordinated terrorist attack. After burning for 56 minutes, the South Tower (2) collapsed, followed a half-hour later by the North Tower (1), with the attacks on the World Trade Center resulting in 2,753 deaths
- 1 World Trade Center
- By David Childs of SOM
- 104 Stories
- 2 World Trade Center
- By Norman Foster
- 82 stories
- 3 World Trade Center
- By Richard Rogers
- 80 stories
- 4 World Trade Center
- By Fumihiko Maki
- 78 stories