constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The project was commissioned in 1945 by Dr. Edith Farnsworth‚ a wealthy nephrologist who intent to build a special piece of modern architecture. She bought a 60-acre estate site which was located 89 km southwest of Chicago downtown for the building to be constructed. The intention of the design was to create a weekend retreat for the client to engage in her hobbies. Mies eventually created a 1500 square feet elevated steel and glass house. Mies included the design
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PROJECT: Chicken Point Cabin LOCATON: Chicken Point‚ Idaho‚ U.S.A. OWNER: Unknown ARCHITECT: Olson Kundig Allen Architects CONSULTING ENGINEERS: Monte Clark Engineering CONTRACTOR: Doric Creager‚ MC Company‚ Spokane FUNCION: Residential Architecture PROJECT COMPLETION: 2002 The Chicken Point Cabin is Located in the North Western area of the states‚ Idaho. In Idaho the climates are similar to its neighbor state Washington where it is much cloudy and precipitates almost
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What is Post-Modernism? The aim of this essay is to explain how Post-Modernism has influenced our contemporary built environment and explain what other movements have derived from it. I would argue that Post-Modernism is a worldwide movement in all arts and disciplines. A definition of postmodernism will provide a better understanding of the trend that would show how it is relevant to contemporary culture and important for the future. Postmodernism became an important movement right after
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of buildings and the rejection of ornamentation. The Inland Steel Building clearly demonstrated how American architecture had changed during those decades and attested to the influence of both the international style and the work of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and their basic principals of design. The Inland Steel Building was the first high-rise in the Chicago Loop after the construction hiatus created by The Great Depression and World War II. The elegant combination of steel and glass were innovative
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Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe became the cornerstone for modernism architecture in 20th century. Until today‚ it is still the foundation for the development of architecture throughout the world. However‚ these two architects found their distinction in expressing their own modernism. Villa Savoye and Barcelona Pavilion are the landmarks in the success of Corbusier and Mies‚ also the discrimination in architectural styles of the two. Villa Savoye of Corbusier encountered Barcelona Pavilion of Mies in the
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The Bauhaus Design Movement The Bauhaus is one of the most important Design Movements in the twentieth century. It took place in Germany of the 1920s and early 1930s‚ the period of the Weimar Republic‚ an area considered one of the birthplaces of the Modern Movement in architecture and design. The impact of the horrible experiences in the First World War‚ poverty and inflation created a new consciousness‚ which influenced strongly Design‚ Architecture and Art. This was the age of the Bauhaus
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changes on Bauhaus ideology and Nazi’s party pressures‚ the Bauhaus community started to unravel leaving the The Bauhaus on unstable ground. In 1930‚ Meyers was dismissed and Mies can der Rohe took over. However‚ the new appointment in director did little to safe the Bauhaus from the fate of being closed by the Nazi Party. Mies relocated the school to Berlin‚ however it was short lived and was forced to closed down by the Nazi party in 1933.
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imitated many times and became an icon of North American corporate design. Mies is known as the father of the steel and glass structure. Mies designed many buildings during his life however none of the would be as popular and famous as the Seagram Building. In real estate and architecture‚ some dreams need a lot of staying power to get realized. The Seagram Building is the realization‚ some three decades late‚ of Mies van der Rohe’s dream of a glass-covered‚ high-rise office tower that would provide
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Modernism In the arts‚ a radical break with the past and concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century‚ particularly in the years following World War I. In an era characterized by industrialization‚ rapid social change‚ advances in science and the social sciences (e.g.‚Darwinism‚ Freudian theory)‚ Modernists felt a growing alienation incompatible with Victorian morality‚ optimism‚ and convention
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