modern achitecture

The Industrial Revolution had so changed technology and design that old concepts no longer seemed right. Starting in 1840, leading artists, designers, and critics tried to develop new approaches to architecture. Modern architecture has its roots in a number of different origins. One of the persistent ideas in 20th-century architecture, however, is the belief of many, engineers as well as architects, that “beauty could be seen in the clear expression of the structural properties of the new materials” (Curtis 25).

As iron, glass, and steel became available, building construction was no longer limited to stone and wood. One structure built for the Paris World’s Fair of 1889 showed this exactly. The Eiffel Tower,

“By a feat of visionary abstraction the artist was to dig below the surface of his society and see he inner meaning of human institutions, then give them an appropriate form”.

give these once mostly unknown buildings a high stylistic look.

and preservation of the Lake Michigan lakefront. Burnham also designed plans for the cities of Baltimore, Maryland; Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio and San Francisco, California, and did plans for Manila and other cities in the Philippines.

Throughout Wright’s career, architects who were more conventional opposed his rebellious methods. With personal difficulties and fellow architects opposing him, he for a year he went to Europe to take a well needed break. Upon his return, established in Taliesin, the home and school

Frank Lloyd Wright has been “portrayed as one of the first architects to break up the old and find a new style” (Curtis 57). In that he did not look at architecture as something that is with nature, but that architecture was a part of nature and that they should consist together. Frank Lloyd Wright saw it that someone should not be able to tell whether the structure had not always been there to begin with. It should seem as if nature grew around the structure instead of the structure being built around nature.

William Holabird began his education at the West Point Military Academy, but after two years he moved to Chicago and worked as a draftsman for William Le Baron Jenney. Holabird founded his own practice in 1880, and started a partnership with Martin Roche in 1881. In addition to their Chicago skyscrapers, Holabird and Roche became leading designers of large hotels. After William Holabird's death, the business was then taken over by his son. The new firm, Holabird & Root, was highly influential in the 1920s.

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