Module 5 20th Century Architecture Written Assignment | Art History II

Module 5 Early 20th Century Art and Architecture

Module 5 20th Century Architecture Written Assignment

In the 20th, and 21st Century, architects began using new materials to build private and public spaces. Modern art influenced modern architecture.

In this discussion forum, we will research architecture as an art form. Choose one of the architects below to research, and inform the class of their genius.

A great website is Great Buildings .com www.greatbuildings.com/

Antoni Gaudí https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/symbolism/a/gaud-sagrada-famlia

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/symbolism/v/gaud-church-of-the-sagrada-fam-lia-1882-consecrated-2010-still-under-construction

Le Corbusier

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/corbusier-savoye

Mies van der Rohe

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/v/mies-van-der-rohe-seagram-building-new-york-city-1958

Frank Lloyd Wright

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/frank-lloyd-wright-fallingwater

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/architecture-20c/v/frank-lloyd-wright-solomon-r-guggenheim-museum-new-york-city-1942-1959

Frank Gehry

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/global-contemporary/a/gehry-bilbao

Maya Lin

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/global-contemporary/v/mayalin-vietnamvetmem

http://www.mayalin.com/

https://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial
- World Trade Center Freedom Tower
- Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (David M. Childs)
- Daniel Libeskind
https://www.wtc.com/about/buildings/1-world-trade-center

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/the-tower-that-could-have-been-daniel-libeskinds-award-winning-wtc-design/

Sam Rodia http://www.wattstowers.us/ The Watts Tower, Los Angeles, California

I.M. Pei

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/a-portrait-of-i-m-pei-at-nearly-100.html

National Gallery

Louvre Museum Entrance

Eero Saarinen

TWA Terminal JFK

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/11/the-20th-century-architecture-of-eero-saarinen/100631/

Zaha Hadid

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/arts/design/zaha-hadid-architect-dies.html?mcubz=2&_r=0

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/arts/design/zaha-hadid-designs.html

http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/lois-richard-rosenthal-center-for-contemporary-art/

Rosenthal Contemporary Art Center
Module 5 Written Assignment 20th Century Art and Architecture
In the 20th, and 21st Century, architects began using new materials to build private and public spaces. Modern art influenced modern architecture.

In this discussion forum, we will research architecture as an art form. Choose one of the architects below to research, and inform the class of their genius.

A great website is Great Buildings .com www.greatbuildings.com/

Antoni Gaudí https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/symbolism/a/gaud-sagrada-famlia

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/symbolism/v/gaud-church-of-the-sagrada-fam-lia-1882-consecrated-2010-still-under-construction

Le Corbusier

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/corbusier-savoye

Mies van der Rohe

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/v/mies-van-der-rohe-seagram-building-new-york-city-1958

Frank Lloyd Wright

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/frank-lloyd-wright-fallingwater

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/architecture-20c/v/frank-lloyd-wright-solomon-r-guggenheim-museum-new-york-city-1942-1959

Frank Gehry

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/global-contemporary/a/gehry-bilbao

Maya Lin

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/global-contemporary/v/mayalin-vietnamvetmem

http://www.mayalin.com/

https://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial
- World Trade Center Freedom Tower
- Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (David M. Childs)
- Daniel Libeskind
https://www.wtc.com/about/buildings/1-world-trade-center

http://inhabitat.com/nyc/the-tower-that-could-have-been-daniel-libeskinds-award-winning-wtc-design/

Sam Rodia http://www.wattstowers.us/ The Watts Tower, Los Angeles, California

I.M. Pei

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/a-portrait-of-i-m-pei-at-nearly-100.html

National Gallery

Louvre Museum Entrance

Eero Saarinen

TWA Terminal JFK

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/11/the-20th-century-architecture-of-eero-saarinen/100631/

Zaha Hadid

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/arts/design/zaha-hadid-architect-dies.html?mcubz=2&_r=0

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/01/arts/design/zaha-hadid-designs.html

http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/lois-richard-rosenthal-center-for-contemporary-art/

Rosenthal Contemporary Art Center