Art History 282/682, Modern Architecture

Week 6, Class 1

De Stijl

Le Corbusier, Villa Stein/de Monzie, Garches, France, 1926-1928; Gabrielle de Monzie, Michael and Sarah Stein

Le Corbusier, Maison Cook, Paris, 1926-1927

Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, "The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa," 1947

Andrea Palladio, Villa Foscari, outside Venice, 1550-1560

Le Corbusier, "Regulating Lines"

William Jordy

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, 1928-1931

Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Stock Exchange, Amsterdam, 1897-1904

Michel de Klerk, Eigen Haard Housing Estate, Amsterdam, 1913-1920

Robert van't Hoff, Villa at Huis ter Heide, The Netherlands, 1916

Jacobus Johannes Pieter or J. J. P. Oud, projects for a warehouse and a factory, 1919

J. J. P. Oud, Strandboulevard, seaside housing project, Scheveningen, Netherlands, 1917

Piet Mondrian, Windmill and Trees, 1907

Piet Mondrain, Trees Under Blue Sky, 1908

Piet Mondrian, Blue Tree, 1908-1909

Piet Mondrian, Tree, 1911-1912

Piet Mondrian, Tree, 1912

Piet Mondrian, Tree, 1913

Piet Mondrian, Oval Composition with Tree, 1913

Piet Mondrian, Composition in Line and Color, 1913

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Planes of Color, 1914

Piet Mondrian, Composition with red, Yellow, and Blue, 1920

Bart van der Leck

Theosophy

Mathieu Hubert Joseph Schoenmaekers, The New Image of the World, 1915

The Principles of Plastic Mathematics, 1916

Schoenmaekers: "The three principle colors are essentially yellow, blue, and red. They are the only colors existing."

Schoenmaekers: "The two fundamental, complete contraries which shape our earth and all that is of the earth are: the horizontal line of power, that is the course of the earth around the sun, and the vertical, profoundly spatial movement of rays that originate in the center of the sun."

J. J. P. Oud and Theo van Doesburg, De Vonk, Nordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 1918

J. J. P. Oud, Café de Unie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1924

Leyden, The Netherlands

Theo van Doesburg, Aesthetic Transformation of an Object (The Cow), 1916

Theo van Doesburg, Composition VIII, 1920

De Stijl, "Manifesto I," 1918

elementarization and integration

Theo van Doesburg, Spatial Diagram for a House, 1924; Counter-Construction, 1924

Theo van Doesburg, Studies for a House, 1924

Cornelis van Eesteren

Léonce Rosenberg's Gallerie de l'Effort Moderne, Paris, 1923

axonometric

Theo van Doesburg, "Towards a Plastic Architecture," 1924

Gerrit Rietveld, Red/Blue Chair, 1917-1918; and an Armchair, 1919

Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schröder, Schröder House, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1923-1924

Theo van Doesburg with Hans Arp and Sophie Tauber Arp, Café L'Aubette, Strasbourg, 1928

El Lissitzky