Pierre-François-Henri Labrouste was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux-Arts school of architecture. After a six-year stay in Rome,Labrouste established an architectural training workshop,which soon became known for rationalism. He became noted for his use of iron-frame construction and was one of the first to realize the importance of its use.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan,New York City,on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The institution was conceived in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller,Lillie P. Bliss,and Mary Quinn Sullivan. Initially located in the Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue,it opened just days after the Wall Street Crash. The museum,America's first devoted exclusively to modern art,was led by A. Conger Goodyear as president and Abby Rockefeller as treasurer,with Alfred H. Barr Jr. as its first director. Under Barr's leadership,the museum's collection rapidly expanded,beginning with an inaugural exhibition of works by European modernists. Despite financial challenges,including opposition from John D. Rockefeller Jr.,the museum moved to several temporary locations in its early years,and John D. Rockefeller Jr. eventually donated the land for its permanent site.
The International Style or internationalism is a major architectural style that was developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modernist architecture. It was first defined by Museum of Modern Art curators Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in 1932,based on works of architecture from the 1920s. The terms rationalist architecture and modern movement are often used interchangeably with International Style,although the former is mostly used in the English-speaking world to specifically refer to the Italian rationalism,or even the International Style that developed in Europe as a whole.
Modern architecture was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century,between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements. Modern architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction;the principle functionalism;an embrace of minimalism;and a rejection of ornament.
This is a timeline of architecture,indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including structural engineering,landscape architecture,and city planning. One significant architectural achievement is listed for each year.
Lilly Reich was a German designer of textiles,furniture,interiors,and exhibition spaces. She was a close collaborator with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for more than ten years during the Weimar period from 1925 until his emigration to the U.S. in 1938. Reich was an important figure in the early Modern Movement in architecture and design. Her fame was posthumous,as the significance of her contribution to the work of Mies van der Rohe and others with whom she collaborated with only became clear through the research of later historians of the field.
Cassina S.p. A. is an Italian manufacturing company specialised in the creation of high-end designer furniture.
Anthony Alofsin is an American architect,artist,art historian,writer,and professor. Educated at Memphis Academy of Art and Phillips Academy,Andover,he received from Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design,respectively,a Bachelor of Arts (1971) and Master of Architecture (1981). From Columbia University,he obtained a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology (1987).
Martin Myles Filler is an American architecture critic. He is best known for his long essays on modern architecture that have appeared in The New York Review of Books since 1985,and which served as the basis for his 2007 book Makers of Modern Architecture,published by New York Review Books.
The KW Institute for Contemporary Art is a contemporary art institution located in Auguststraße 69 in Berlin-Mitte,Germany. Klaus Biesenbach was the founding director of KW;the current director is Krist Gruijthuijsen.
Leah Dickerman is the director of research programs at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She was formerly director of editorial &content strategy at MoMA. Serving previously as the museum’s first Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture,a post endowed in 2015,Dickerman previously held the positions of curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA (2008–2015),acting head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art (NGA),Washington,D.C. (2007),and associate curator in modern and contemporary art at the NGA (2001–2007). Over the course of her career,Dickerman has organized or co-organized a series of exhibitions including One-Way Ticket:Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Works (2015),Inventing Abstraction,1910-1925 (2012–2013),Diego Rivera:Murals for the Museum of Modern Art (2011–2012),Bauhaus:Workshops for Modernity (2009–2010),Dada (2005–2006),and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1998).
The Alan I W Frank House is a private residence in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and partner Marcel Breuer,two of the pioneering masters of 20th-century architecture and design. This spacious,multi-level residence,its furnishings and landscaping were all created by Gropius and Breuer as a 'Total Work of Art.' In size and completeness,it is unrivaled. It was their most important residential commission,and it is virtually the same today as when it was built in 1939–40,original and authentic.
Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016,and was the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the 2016 Venice Biennale.
Elizabeth (Bauer) Mock was director of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and a university professor. She was a charter apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin,and the first former Taliesin fellow to join the MoMA staff. She was an influential advocate for modern architecture in the United States.
The Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art was formed in Meriden,Connecticut,as part of the Miller Company. The collection was formed by then CEO Burton Tremaine Sr. and his wife,Miller Co. art director Emily Hall Tremaine in 1945. Works from the collection were featured in the Painting Toward Architecture exhibition,putting forth post-WWII art,design and architecture crossovers,originating at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford,CT,and traveling to 28 additional venues in 1947–1952 across the United States.
Peter Johnston Galassi is an American writer,curator,and art historian working in the field of photography. His principal fields are photography and nineteenth-century French art.
Arthur Justin Drexler was a museum curator and director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for 35 years.
Peter H. Christensen is the Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities at the University of Rochester. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study.
Leong Leong is an architecture studio and design consultancy in New York City. Founded in 2009 by brothers Dominic Leong and Chris Leong,the studio is known for material experimentation and integrating aesthetics with social practice.
