This was the period of technology and steel construction.
1. Peter Behrens | AEG Turbine Hall 1910
He designed the image of the Turbine Hall, such as the logo, architecture and graphics. He is considered to be the first industrial designer. He worked with up and coming students such as Mies van der Rohe and Walter Grupius and Le Corbusier. The building portrays a sense of a monumental industrial structure but as seen in the sections there is a light and delicate quality to parts of the interior such as light steel elements of construction.
2. Gropius and Meyer | Fagus Werk 1913
This was the ‘first modernist’ building. The design expressed new qualities and structural possibilities of using new materials. It was the first building to use canter levers and to have a flat roof. One of the flanks of he building is all glass, and one of the first for this complete glass façade. This shows that construction methods were continuously changing and becoming more and more developed, a glass wall on such a large building is very substantial, and it allowed the interior to be flooded with light.
When the First World War happened things started to change. There was a celebration of the aircraft and the machine, which was later seen as an influence in design. The industrialisation of the War period changed the landscape completely, lives were changed and so did design and architecture. After the war the effect was noticeable in the big cities, people were injured and places were destroyed. The design changed due to the difficulty of construction, which had to stop, whereas in comparison, the artists were not affected as much.
3. Malevich | Black Square | painting 1919.
Malevich was part of the constructivism and Suprimatism period, which was an artistic and architectural movement from 1919. It favored art as a practice directed towards social purposes. It was a milestone in the history of art and design. Black Square is a simple geometric form of abstraction. The square sybolises a ‘full void’ to Malevich and shows hat the painting can perform itself. He does not use any representation but focuses clearly on the clean geometric forms. Malevich believed every object has a static faced as well as an inner dynamic and here with Black Square he is very clever with his painting. It can be read in two was, is it a black square on a white background or a black hole surrounded by a white frame.
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