• A movement emerged in Northern
Europe during the firstdecades of
the 20th century, parallel with the
expressionist visual and
performing arts that especially
development
4. ORIGIN OF EXPRESSIONISM
• A movement emerged in Northern
Europe during the first decades of
the 20th century, parallel with the
expressionist visual and
performing arts that especially
developed and dominated in
Germany.
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5. ORIGIN OF EXPRESSIONISM
• Expressionist architects used materials
such as brick, concrete and glass to
create unique sculptural forms and
massing, sometimes distorted and
fragmented to express an emotional
perspective.
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6. EVENTS DURING EXPRESSIONISM
• Important occasions in
Expressionist architecture
include;
• The Werkbund Exhibition
(1914) in Cologne,
• The completion Großes
Schauspielhaus theater, at
Berlin in 1919,
• The Glass Chain letters,
and
• The activities of the
Amsterdam School.
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Großes Schauspielhaus theatre, Berlin,
Germany
10. INFLUENCE OF EXPRESSIONISM
• In 1933, after the Nazi seizure of
power in Germany, expressionist art
was outlawed as degenerate.
• Expressionistic architecture today is an
evident influence in Deconstructivism.
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Dancing House by Vlado Milunić and
Frank Gehry, Prague, Czech Republic
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
by Frank Gehry, in Bilbao, Spain
Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank
Gehry, Los Angeles, California
Seattle Central Library, Rem Koolhaas and OMA
11. CHARACTERISTICS
• Abstraction
• Unusual & innovative
building forms
• Expressing emotion
through distorted forms.
• Emphasis of symbolic or
stylistic expression over
realism.
• Materials such as brick,
concrete and glass
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12. CHARACTERISTICS
• Unusual massing
• sometimes inspired by natural
biomorphic forms
• Natural themes such as
mountains, lightning, rock
formations, caves, and so on.
• The romantic appreciation of
architecture as an art form.
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Casa Milà, 1912
19. ORIGIN OF FUTURISM
• Italian Movement of Arts
• Begun in 1909, by Filippo Marinetti
• 1910- painters published a
manifesto of Futurism called
"Manifesto of Futurist Architecture"
• Violent protest against historical
styles
• Found new aesthetics in the
machine.
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Perspective drawing from La Città Nuova by Sant'Elia, 1914
20. CHARACTERISTICS
• Long dynamic lines, suggesting speed,
motion, urgency and lyricism
• Glorified mechanical aspects of art
over traditional imitation of beauty
• Designs and drawings for an imaginary
city
• Utopian visions for futurist cities
• limitless in scope and scale
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21. • Futurism went out of fashion following WWII
• Emerged again in a reinterpreted form with the popularity of futuristic
comic books and the arrival of the Space Age.
• This became known as ‘Googie’ architecture, which first appeared
in Southern California during the late-1940s, influenced by the
futurist designs of car culture, jet travel and the Atomic Age.
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