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Art Nouveau
(French for 'new art') is an international style of art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning of the 20th century (1880-1914) and is characterized by highly-stylized, flowing, curvilinear designs often incorporating floral and other plant-inspired motifs.
Hotel Tassel (Victor Horta) 1st Art Nouveau Building in the World
Antoni Gaudi
Sagrada de Familia
Antoni Gaudi
Metropolitain Paris
Hector Guimard
Karsplatz Station
Otto Wagner
De Stijl
Dutch for The Style (also known as Neoplasticism) 1917-1931
Sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.
Goal: to create a precise, mechanical order lacking in the natural world. Piet Mondrian, Composition With Yellow, Blue and Red, 1939-42.
Schroder House
Gerrit Rietveld
Bauhaus
Walter Gropius
Bauhaus
20th Century contributions include the CANTILEVER CHAIR
Einstein Tower
Erich Mendelsohn
Chicago
Flatiron Building
Daniel Burnham
Art Deco
Art Deco was a popular design movement from 1920 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design. This movement was a combination of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Constructionism, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. Its popularity apexed during the 1920s. Although many design movements have political or philosophical roots or intentions, Art Deco was purely decorative. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, functional, and ultra modern.
Chrysler Building
William van Allen
Woolworth Building
Cass Gilbert
Rockefeller Tower
Reinhard and Hofmeister
FLW
Guggenheim Museum
Lakeshore Apartments
Seagram Building
German Pavilion
AT & T Building Phillip Johnson Phillip Johnson helped Mies van der Rohe design the Seagram Building in the 1950s, but in the 70s he did the opposite with the AT&T Building (now called the Sony Building)
Portland Building
US Pavilion Expo 96
Buckminster Fuller
City of Brasilia
Oscar Niemeyer & Lucio Costa
Japan Expo 92
Tadao Ando
Fuji TV Building
Kenzo Tange
newMetropolis, Amsterdam
Auditorio de Tenerife
Torre de Collserola
Milau Viaduct