Chicago SchoolPrairie SchoolGlasgow SchoolVienna Secession
Houses for Art Lovers
• Louis Sullivan• Daniel Burnham• Frank Lloyd Wright• Charles Rennie Mackintosh• Victor Horta• Hector Guimard• Joseph Hoffman• Adolf Loos• Le Corbusier• Alvar Aalto
the modern project
break with past, often forcible rejection, new spirit, progressive movement
social equality, liberation of masses oppressed by industrial labour
purity, cleanliness, unornamented, honesty of expression
new materials and technologies, mass production, prefabrication
function equated with beauty, planning and order produce ideal
abstraction, immutable truths of mathematics, basis for universality
Chicago after the fire of 1871
Transportation Building - Louis Sullivan
H H Richardson, Field Building, Chicago
Adler & Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott, Chicago
LeBaron Jenney fireproofing
Adler & Sullivan, Chicago Auditorium
Adler & Sullivan, Wainwright
Adler & Sullivan Guaranty
Frank Lloyd Wright Winslow House
Frank Lloyd Wright, Ennis-Brown House, Los Angeles, 1923-4
Frank Lloyd Wright, Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, 1904-7
Frank Lloyd Wright – Robie House – 1906-9
Frank Lloyd Wright – Robie House – 1906-9
Robie House – interior
“Rainbow City”
Chicago World’s Fair 1933 - Sky Ride
Westinghouse Electric Pavilionlocomotives, generators, dirigibles and household appliances
Pavilions of motor manufacturers
Adler & Sullivan Guaranty
Frank Lloyd Wright – Robie House – 1906-9
Postcard view of the Clyde and Glasgow from the Sailor’s Home 1900
Charing Cross, Glasgow 1901
Robert Adam– Trades Hall 1791-4
Gildard & MacFarlane – Britannia Panopticon Music Hall 1857 – Britain’s first music hall
Alexander “Greek” Thomson – St Vincent Street Church 1859
Arch of Titus, Rome 1891
Study of tomb, St Croce, Florence 1891
Hector Guimard – Metro station entrances, Paris 1900
Hector Guimard – Castel Beranger, Paris 1894-9
Victor Horta - Tassel House, Brussels 1892-3
Victor Horta – Tassel House, Brussels 1892-3
James MacLaren – Fortingall village
C F A Voysey – Broadleys, Windermere, 1898
H M Baillie-Scott – Blackwell fireplace 1900
C R Mackintosh Glasgow Herald 1893-4
C R Mackintosh - Daily Record 1901
Decorative panel for Buchanan St Tea Rooms 1896-7
Margaret McDonald textile design 1900
The Four – installation at International Exhibition of Decorative Art, Turin 1902Rose Boudoir
C R Mackintosh – Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow 1904
C R Mackintosh – Hill House
C R Mackintosh - House for an Art Lover, competition entry 1901
Competition entries by Baillie Scott and Leopold Bauer
House for an Art Loverbuilt 1990-4 to Mackintosh’s design by Andy MacMillan
Josef Hoffman – Palais Stoclet – 1905-11 - Brussels
Le Corbusier – Villa La Roche -1923 - Paris
Alvar Aalto - Villa Mairea – 1938 - Noormarkku Finland
the modern projectWe can see how each of these houses has demonstrated characteristics of
break with past, often forcible rejection, new spirit, progressive movement
social equality, liberation of masses oppressed by industrial labour
purity, cleanliness, unornamented, honesty of expression
new materials and technologies, mass production, prefabrication
function equated with beauty, planning and order produce ideal
abstraction, immutable truths of mathematics, basis for universality
the modern projectWe can see how each of these houses has demonstrated characteristics of
break with past, often forcible rejection, new spirit, progressive movement
social equality, liberation of masses oppressed by industrial labour
purity, cleanliness, unornamented, honesty of expression
new materials and technologies, mass production, prefabrication
function equated with beauty, planning and order produce ideal
abstraction, immutable truths of mathematics, basis for universality
In addition, they have revealed how architects relate their works with
place, landscape, nature, national identity and artistry.