history of modern architecture
Glasgow School of Art
Charles Rennie MacKintosh (1868 - 1928)
Glasgow, Scotland (1896)
An Art Nouveau design by MacKintosh that was outside the norm of the time for its lack of overt stylistic references to well-explored historical periods.
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Hotel Tassel
Victor Horta (1861 - 1947)
Brussels, Belgium (1894)
The Hôtel Tassel can be considered the founding work of Art Nouveau. Commissioned by Professor Emile Tassel in 1893, it was the first work in which Horta was able to realize his original conception of architecture. In 1976 the street facade and the main doors were restored and the building was adapted as prestige offices. The street facade, built from stone, is remarkably integrated into its context. Above the entrance there is a two-storey bow window in an innovative steel structure. On the street site the building has the entrance floor, a mezzanine, first and second floor, and an attic. These levels are shifted towards the garden side by way of a central staircase.
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Basilica de la Sagrada Familia
Antoni Gaudi (1852 - 1926)
Barcelona, Spain (1883 - estimated 2026)
La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona i sone of Antoni Gaudi's most impressive works. This enormous church, as yet unfinished, is a summary of everything that Gaudi designed before. The structural difficulties he faced and errors he committed in other projects are revisited and resolved in Sagrada Familia.
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Casa Mila
Antoni Gaudi (1852 - 1926)
Barcelona, Spain (1906 - 1912)
Gaudí planned a fantastic house with undulating, living forms. Its structure is based on wrought metallic girders and Catalan-style vaults which are supported by metallic summers on brick (mostly), ashlar or iron columns. The only structural walls pertain to the stairway. Gaudí always said that if someday the building became a hotel there would be no problem because, as it lacks weight-holding walls, the distribution of the flats may be modified by simply changing the placement of the partitions or eliminating them altogether.
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Karlsplatz Station
Otto Wagner (1841 - 1918)
Vienna, Austria (1898)
Wagner's design was revolutionary. The many decorative details make the station into a prime example of Viennese art nouveau. Metal and wood were painted apple-green, the signal colour of the Stadtbahn. Gold, and finest white marble were added on the exterior.
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section 2b art nouveau
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Georges de Feure, France, about 1900
bronze candlestick - whiplash, natural imagery