Modern Architecture
- Created by: epearce1998
- Created on: 14-05-16 13:36
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- Modern Architecture
- Context
- 20th Century, a new optimism about a utopian way of living
- Technological advancements
- Reinforced concrete, iron, steel
- Skyscrapers- weight taken off walls and onto an iron framework
- Use of glass- feeling of weightlessness
- Rejection of traditional upper class materials
- Rise in socialist ideas post WW1
- Technological advancements
- 20th Century, a new optimism about a utopian way of living
- Materials
- High tensile strength of new materials
- Allows for bolder structures, more height, more glass etc
- Ribbon windows and panoramic views
- Feeling of weightlessness
- Use of voids and spaces
- Natural light
- Feeling of weightlessness
- Cantilerage
- Truth to materials
- Lack of joins- whitewashing
- High tensile strength of new materials
- Stylistic features
- Minimalistic, simplictic
- Lack of ordimentation, austere
- Rejection of traditional upper class materials
- Lack of ordimentation, austere
- Geometric shapes
- Rectilinear, use of cubes
- Open plan and grid like
- Use of voids and spaces
- Compartmented
- Strong lines
- Harmony and order
- Often whitewahsed
- Minimalistic, simplictic
- Main importance is functionality
- Rise in socialist ideas post WW1
- Clean living spaces
- Housing for all
- Built for efficency
- Context
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