Revivalism

Neoclassicism
The US Capitol Building or Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.
NEOCLASSIC. Paris Opera House, Charles Garnier.
NEOCLASSIC. Monticello, Thomas Jefferson. (Neoclassic style with native American materials)
GREEK REVIVAL. Second Bank of the United States, William Strickland.
Gothic Revival
GOTHIC REVIVAL. (Rebuilt) Houses of Parliament, London. Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.
Beaux-Arts
The McMillan Plan, a comprehensive planning document for the development of the monumental core and the
park system of Washington, D.C.
An aerial view of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., showing the Lincoln Memorial at the bottom, the
Washington Monument at center, and the U.S. Capitol at the top.
Crystal Palace, London, England. Joseph Paxton.
Brooklyn Bridge. John Augustus and Washington Roebling. (World's largest steel suspension bridge.)
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Home Insurance Building, Chicago. William LeBaron Jenney. (Considered as the first skyscraper.)
Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri. Louis Sullivan.
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Prudential (Guaranty) Building, Buffalo, New York. Louis Sullivan.
Carson Pirie Scott Department Store (Sullivan Center), Chicago, Illinois. Louis Sullivan.
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▪ Prairie house
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Robie House, Chicago, Illinois. Frank Lloyd Wright.
Fa/lingwater (Kauffman House), Pennsylvania. Frank Uoyd Wright.
Broadacre City. Frank LLoyd Wright.
Johnson Wax Company Administration Center, Racine, Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Chrysler Building, New York. William Van A/en.
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Hotel Tassel, Belgium. Victor Horta.
Paris Metro Entrances. Hector Guimard.
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Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain. Antoni Gaudi.
Casa Mila, Barcelona, Spain. Antoni Gaudi.
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain. Antoni Gaudi.
Modern "-isms"
And Other Architectural Styles
Expressionism
A European movement that generated jagged and
dynamic forms; forms were distorted for an emotional
effect.

Symbolic or stylistic expression of inner experience;

concept of more importance than practicality;
architecture as a work of art.
Einstein Tower, Potsdam, Germany. Erich Mendelsohn.
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Rietveld Schroder House. Utrecht, Netherlands. Gerrit Rietveld.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, New York City. Frank Lloyd Wright.
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The Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany. Walter Gropius.
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The Five Points of Architecture
The bases of modern architecture according toLe
Corbusier. This proposes his ideas about how to live
in an industrialized world.
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Villa Savoye, Poissy, France. Le Corbusier. (Reflected the architect's five points of architecture)
Unite d'Habitation, Marseille, France. Le Corbusier. (An apartment block with 23 different unit types)
Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France. Le Corbusier. (More complex, sculptural shapes in concrete.)
La Ville Contemporaine. Le Corbusier. (A visionary scheme of highly ordered groupings of skyscrapers)
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Barcelona Pavilion, Spain. Mies van der Rohe. (Barcelona chair)
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Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois. Mies van der Rohe.

Seagram Building, New York. Mies van der Rohe.
Postmodern Architects
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MIT Baker House Dormitory, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alvar Aalto.
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TWA Flight Center, New York. Eero Saarinen.
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Phillips Exeter Academy Library, New Hampshire. Louis Kahn.
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Vanna Venturi House, Philadelphia. Aoberl \fenturi.
Episcopal Academy Chapel; Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Robert Venturi.
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The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut. Philip Johnson. (International Style)
AT&T Building, New York. Philip Johnson.
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Team Disney Burbank, California. Michael Graves.
Postmodern Styles
Hubert H. Humphrey Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington,
D. C. , Marcel Breuer,
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, (The innards of the building are placed on the
exterior.)
Mi/lenium Dome, London. Richard Rogers. (Spans 80,000 sq.m.; largest fabric-covered structure in the world.}
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Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain. Frank Gehry.
Vitra Fire Station; Wei/ am Rhein, Germany. Zaha Hadid.
One World Tracie Center; New York City. Daniel Libeskind. (The tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.)
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Nanyang Technological University; Singapore. CPG Consultants Pte Ltd.