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Rotifer's tribute to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, visualized as a combination of live footage and animated drawings by the artist himself. Direction: Lelo Brossmann ©…

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Frank Lloyd Wright, Young Architecture, 1931

Principles of organic architecture

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Plan Obus for Algiers, Le Corbusier, 1933.

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Colonial Exposition in Paris, 1931, mural

"The goal, in sum, was to protect certain aspects of cultural traditions while sponsoring other aspects of modernization.”

Gwendolyn Wright, “Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930.”

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Gwendolyn Wright, “Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930.”

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Mies van der Rohe - Illustrations in Modern Architecture: International Exhibition (121-127)

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Modern Architecture: International Exhibition - MoMA, 1932

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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye (Poissy, France, 1928-1931)

Five Points Towards a New Architecture, in practice.

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Five Points Towards a New Architecture, comparisons.

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“Walter Benjamin ... advocates the utopian ideal of living in a house of glass in which, along with every single trace of coziness, also every trace of the inhabitant would be erased.” (Van Herck 125)

Philip Johnson, Glass House (1949)

Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House (1951)

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“...this resistance against coziness can easily be understood as a reaction against the sumptuous way burgeois notions of domesticity found expression in the interior. When the notions of cleanliness, simplicity and order became gradually more important in European culture, the notion of coziness consequently came under attack.” (Van Herck 124)

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Leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born today in 1886. Mies is known for his buildings (like the Seagram Building in midtown Manhattan) as well as his furniture, like the MR Side Chair. [Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. MR Side Chair. 1927]

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Tower Bawher by Theodor Ushev (2005) - music by Georgy Sviridov

Abstract animated short inspired by Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International

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Monument to the Third International, Vladimir Tatlin, 1919-1920

illustration, 1920

picture of the model, 1919-1920

how the tower would look against the skyline of the real St. Petersburg, 1999 (Takehiko Nagakura’s film)

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Great Hall in the Palace of King Munza (1874 illustration) + Galerie des Machines (1889) + Maison du Peuple (1895-96)

"...making sense of Horta’s stylistic development requires that we make room for King Munza on the roster of his better-known inspirations, Gustave Eiffel and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and that there is an early, and unrecognized, African lineage of international modernism in architecture." (Silverman 163)

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"Van de Velde’s and Horta’s line of force, with its twisting aerial curves, integrally links the architectural whiplash style to the imperial culture in which it flourished." (Silverman 170)