20 th Century U.S. Architecture

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20 th Century U.S. Architecture. 19 th century Revivalism/Historicism. Steel Form Follows Function Modernist Terra Cotta decorations Not historicizing. Frank Lloyd Wright, Wm. Winslow House,  River Forest, IL, 1893. Victorian Houses. Robie House, Chicago. Prairie School - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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20th Century U.S. Architecture

19th century Revivalism/Historicism

SteelForm Follows FunctionModernist Terra Cotta decorationsNot historicizing

Frank Lloyd Wright, Wm. Winslow House, River Forest, IL, 1893

Prairie SchoolCantileveringRibbon FenestrationOrganic plan/spacesHearthHorizontalityIndustrial and naturalSite specific

Victorian Houses

Robie House, Chicago

Unity Temple, Oak ParkReinforced Concrete

Florida Southern College, Lakeland Florida, begun 1938

“less is more”

“less is a bore”

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

Michael Graves, Portland Service Building

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