International Style

International Style

This is a design and architecture period that happened during the 1920's and 1930's. The architecture within this stylistic period is said to have reflected the modernism art period happening around the same time. Characteristics from this design period were "i. rectilinear forms; ii. light, taut plane surfaces that have been completely stripped of applied ornamentation and decoration; iii. open interior spaces; iv. a visually weightless quality engendered by the use of cantilever construction. Glass and steel, in combination with usually less visible reinforced concrete, are the characteristic materials of the construction"
Quotation Retrieved from : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Style_(architecture)

 

LIVING IN THE 1920's

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INTREST:  

 

 

ARCHITECTURE:

 Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Mies van der Rohe

 

Bauhaus, Dessau, Walter Gropius

Villa Tugendhat, Brno, Mies van der Rohe

Villa Savoye, Paris, Le Corbusier

• Turkish War of Independence
• Greco–Turkish War (May 1919 – October 1922)
• Turkish–Armenian War (September 24 to December 2, 1920)
• Franco-Turkish War (May 1920 – October 1921)
• Polish–Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1922)
• Irish War of Independence (January 1919 - July 1921)

Technology

Robert Goddard and his rocket, 1926

• John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system (1925). In 1928 he invents and demonstrates the first color television.
• Warner Brothers produces the first movie with a soundtrack Don Juan in 1926, followed by the first Part-Talkie The Jazz Singer in 1927, the first All-Talking movie Lights of New York in 1928 and the first All-Color All-Talking movie On with the Show, 1929. Silent films start giving way to sound films. By 1936, the transition phase arguably ends, with Modern Times being the last notable silent film.
• Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (May 20–21, 1927), nonstop from New York to Paris.
• Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the modern electronic cathode ray tube in 1897. The CRT became a commercial product in 1922.
• Record companies (such as Victor, Brunswick and Columbia) introduce an electrical recording process on their phonograph records in 1925 (that had been developed by Western Electric), resulting in a more lifelike sound.
• Robert Goddard makes the first flight of a liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.
• The first electric razor is patented in 1928 by the American manufacturer Col. Jacob Schick.
• The first selective Jukeboxes being introduced in 1927 by the Automated Musical Instrument Company.
• Harold Stephen Black revolutionizes the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927.
• Clarence Birdseye invents a process for frozen food in 1925.

All Above Information on technology retrieved from : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s

Bauhaus

A documentary about Bauhaus which was a famous art school in Germany from 1919 to 1933. It is said to believe that the thinking of this prestigious school was what made the approach of international roar.

 

1920-1930 history

Although the 1920s were filled with glitz and glam by the 1930's the great depression hit. It was the worst economic crisis to happen to the western world. In America the great depression happened after the stock market crash in 1929 which was the worst wall street crisis utill the stock market crash in 2007 from the housing market stocks on wall street.

DRAWINGS:

 

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