Atlas Trail
Building the Modern: Four Movements and Two Rediscovered Forms
Seven stops through the scaffolding this wave built around Architecture: the American Prairie School and the organic architecture philosophy it fed into, the German Bauhaus and the International Style it helped shape, and two founding-wave gaps closed at last, printmaking as its own art form and jazz as its own movement.
Stop 1 of 7.
Art Forms
Architecture: the art form every stop on this trail either builds toward or expresses.
Stop 2 of 7.
Movements
Prairie School: a home-grown Chicago-area current, low and horizontal, built to echo the midwestern prairie rather than any inherited European style.
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Movements
Organic architecture: not a period style but a continuing philosophy that form and function are one, distinguished here from the more universalizing International Style.
Stop 4 of 7.
Movements
Bauhaus: the German school that trained a generation in the unity of art, craft and industrial technology, closed by Nazi pressure in 1933.
Stop 5 of 7.
Movements
International Style: named in New York in 1932 for architecture that had developed across Germany, France and the Netherlands through the preceding decade.
Stop 6 of 7.
Art Forms
Printmaking: the medium Hokusai worked in, finally given its own place instead of being folded into painting.
Stop 7 of 7.
Movements
Jazz: born in New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century, and the movement Louis Armstrong now formally belongs to.
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