Hannah Jurgens

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Compare/Contrast:

Architecture has undergone many changes throughout the course of art history.

Introduction to newer phases was a gradual shift, and it was absolutely necessary for each

movement to begin to have an influential piece to serve as the leading designs. The Villa

Savoye by Le Corbusier and Seagram Building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are both works

of architecture that exemplify an idea of modernism. Both buildings displayed important

characteristics that were then replicated by many buildings that followed.

The function of the two is one of the things that distinguishes them from each other; one

serves as an office building/skyscraper while the other was intended to be a house. Le Corbusier

purposefully incorporated modern and futuristic aspects into his design of The Villa Savoye,

despite being built in the 1930s. It includes elements such as a roof that doubles as a garden,

load-bearing walls, elongated horizontal windows and ground-level piers that act as support for

the structure. The uniform white color of the building is what unites all of these things together,

in a single work of art.The Villa Savoye and its complex appearance was a major influence to

the movement of international modernism, with its notable five points of architecture. In

contrast to this, Seagram Building is exponentially more simple in how its designed. It

includes a steel frame, non-structural black walls as well as window blinds. Considered to marry
both modern and classical elements, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe made sure that Seagram

Building was corporate in design and feeling.