P. Picasso, Spanish still life, 1912

P. Picasso, Violin, 1915

A. J. Davis, C. Mewes, Royal Automobil Club, London, 1908-1911

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, Dessau, 1925

(Weimar 1919/25, Dessau 1925/32, Berlin 1932/33)

Courses at Bauhaus

K. Jucker and W. Wagenfeld, Table lamp, 1923

M. Van der Rohe, Barcellona Chair, 1929

Modern Architecture

Form follows function (less is more)

> no decoration

>plain volumes

Iron beam structures and reinforced concrete

> bigger windows (“skin” of glass for skyscrapers)

> Interaction with the environment

M. Van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York 1954/58

P. Mondrian, Opposite lins, red and yellow n.1, 1937

T. Van Doesburg, Color construction, 1922

G. Rietveld, Schroeder House, 1923

G. Rietveld, Red and Blue chair, 1918

Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, 1936/39

U. Boccioni, Bottle in space, 1912

F. Lloyd Write, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1943-58

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoy, 1929

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier, Unité d’habitation, Marsiglia 1947-52

Carlo Daneri, Quartiere Forte Quezzi, 1956

3 PM on March 16, 1972:

Pruitt-Igoe demolition in St.Louis, Missouri, the end of Modernism.