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P. Picasso, Spanish still life, 1912
P. Picasso, Violin, 1915
A. J. Davis, C. Mewes, Royal Automobil Club, London, 1908-1911
Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, Dessau, 1925
(Weimar 1919/25, Dessau 1925/32, Berlin 1932/33)
Courses at Bauhaus
K. Jucker and W. Wagenfeld, Table lamp, 1923
M. Van der Rohe, Barcellona Chair, 1929
Modern Architecture
Form follows function (less is more)
> no decoration
>plain volumes
Iron beam structures and reinforced concrete
> bigger windows (“skin” of glass for skyscrapers)
> Interaction with the environment
M. Van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York 1954/58
P. Mondrian, Opposite lins, red and yellow n.1, 1937
T. Van Doesburg, Color construction, 1922
G. Rietveld, Schroeder House, 1923
G. Rietveld, Red and Blue chair, 1918
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, 1936/39
U. Boccioni, Bottle in space, 1912
F. Lloyd Write, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1943-58
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier, Unité d’habitation, Marsiglia 1947-52
Carlo Daneri, Quartiere Forte Quezzi, 1956
3 PM on March 16, 1972:
Pruitt-Igoe demolition in St.Louis, Missouri, the end of Modernism.
