Architecture Timeline

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Architectural Timeline

1828-1830 |Schinkel, Altes Museum, Berlin |The massive corners of the one and the mullioned wings of the other, the influence of Durand are most clearly revealed in the museum. |Neo-classicism

Schinkel’s Mature Style |1910 |Loos, Steiner House, Vienna |Loos arched a metal roof down to the ceiling of the ground floor at the front of the house. It was thus possible to develop the garden front on three storeys. The rear façade is smooth and symmetrical like the front. |Modern | |1860-1868 |Labrouste, Bibliotheque National, Paris |Labrouste’s design consists of a perimeter wall of books enclosing a rectilinear space and supporting an iron framed barrel vaulted roof. |Structural Rationalism

|1914 |werkbund theater

Henry van de Velde

Cologne, Germany |Reinforced concrete theatre, creating mass wall and reinforced concrete frame construction, rendered over so as to form a homogenous and plastic expression. |Art Nouveau, Modern | |1829 | |Built in Palais Royal in 1829 was the earliest arcade to have a glass barrel vault. The prefabricated cast-iron systems guaranteed a certain speed of assembly and also transporting the building in parts. |Technology |1911 |Walter Gropius, Alfeld an der Leine, Germany

|Steel, brick masonry, glass. With Adolf Meyer. An influential rejection of ornament in the cause of functionalism. |Early Modern | |1851 |Paxton, Crystal Palace, London |The crystal palace was not so much a particular form as it was a building process made manifest as a total system. |Mass-production

Technology

Industrial Revolution |1922 |Gropius and A. Meyer. Project for the Chicago Tribune building. | Walter Gropius was part of the International Style of design, which recognized that walls were no longer significant for structural reasons. Instead they are merely a climate barrier, |Bauhaus School | |1889 |Dutert and Contamin, Galerie Des Machines |Contamin’s shed not only exhibited machines but it itself was an exhibiting...