Introduction to Modern Literature David Spurr, Fall 2020 11 Nov
Introduction to Modern Literature David Spurr, Fall 2020 11 Nov. Architectural form and representation: Some principles American beginnings of modernism: The Chicago School Louis Sullivan, “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered,” 1896 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-205-analysis-of-contemporary- architecture-fall-2009/readings/MIT4_205F09_Sullivan.pdf 18 Nov. Organic architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright Wright, “In the Cause of Architecture,” 1908 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/ext/resources/news/2016/01- Jan/InTheCause/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-In-the-Cause-of-Architecture-March- 1908.pdf “Frank Lloyd Wright: American Architect,” Museum of Modern Art, 1940: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2992 Architectural Forum, special issue on Wright, January 1938: https://usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1938-01.pdf 25 Nov. European beginnings of modernism: Walter Gropius Gropius, “Bauhaus Manifesto and Programme,” 1919 http://mariabuszek.com/mariabuszek/kcai/ConstrBau/Readings/GropBau19.p df Gropius, “Principles of Bauhaus Production,” 1926 http://mariabuszek.com/mariabuszek/kcai/ConstrBau/Readings/GropPrdctn.p df Gropius, ”The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus,” 1923, in Herbert Bayer, Bauhaus 1919-1928, Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_2735_300190238.pdf De Stijl: Gerrit Rietveld Theo van Doesburg, First De Stijl Manifesto, 1918 https://www.readingdesign.org/de-stijl-manifesto Rietveld, “The New Functionalism in Dutch Architecture,“ 1932 https://modernistarchitecture.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/gerrit-rietveld- %E2%80%9Cnew-functionalism-in-dutch-architecture%E2%80%9D-1932/ Machines for Living: Le Corbusier Le Corbusier, “Five Points Towards a New Architecture,” 1926 https://www.spaceintime.eu/docs/corbusier_five_points_toward_new_archit ecture.pdf Le Corbusier, “Towards a New Architecture,” 1927 https://archive.org/details/TowardsANewArchitectureCorbusierLe/page/n91/ mode/2up E1027: Eileen Gray Joseph Rykwert, “Eileen Gray, Design Pioneer,” 1968.
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