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Architecture and Avant-Garde

From mfresnillo, 6 months ago

Revision on some Avant-Garde movements and their architecture

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Slide 1:Architecture and Avant-Garde Revision

Slide 2: Introduction • During the 20th century some avant-garde movements had their expression in architecture. • In general, these styles are influenced by the Bauhaus, and they are contemporary of it. • These avant-garde architectonical experienced are linked to – De Stijl or Neoplasticism (Netherlands) – Russian Constructivism.

Slide 3: De Stijl • Associated with three important figures: – the painters Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, and – the architect and furniture-maker Gerrit Rietveld • De Stijl (or “the style”) was perhaps first developed in Mondrian’s post-Cubist paintings, which consist largely of broken horizontal and vertical lines. • These works evolved into more spare geometric compositions of orthogonal elements, which are rendered in primary colors set against a