Introduction
The ever-changing relationship between social classes has transformed over the years because of the ever-changing social structure and economy. This essay strives to clarify the social class relationship change in the plans of three architects.
Namely:
* Adolf loos - Villa Muller
* Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye
* Mies van der Rohe - Villa Tugendhat
Loos, Adolf
1870-1933, Austrian architect. His rationalist design theories were strongly influenced by his stay in the United States from 1893 to 1896, where he admired American engineering works. In residential designs such as the Steiner House in Vienna (1910), he emphasized smooth, undecorated wall surfaces. Adolf loos's best-known large-scale work is the office building on the Michaelerplatz (1910). Loos's simplification of architectural forms had a strong influence on the development of the International style.
Adolf Loos -www.factmonster.com
Le Corbusier
Born on October 6, 1887, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, he received an early art education, then studied modern building construction under Auguste Perret in Paris. Later he spent brief periods working with the German architect Josef Hoffmann. In 1922 he went into partnership in Paris as an architect with his cousin, the engineer Pierre Jeanneret, and adopted his mother's maiden name, Le Corbusier. While practicing as an architect, Le Corbusier was also active as a painter and writer. His work did much to bring about general acceptance of the now-common international style of low-lying, unadorned buildings that depend for aesthetic effect on the simplicity of forms and relation to function that he is still sought after today.
Le Corbusier. -www.encarta.com
Mies Van Der Rohe
German-American architect. One of the pioneers of modern architecture, Mies, was an assistant to Peter Behrens. His 1921 design for an all-glass skyscraper attracted inte...