Lecture i introduction to modern history

Ar. Hena Tiwari/GCAD/Jan-July 2017

Lecture-I

Introduction to Unit I & II

-Ar. Hena Tiwari


Early modern designers drew inspiration from modern art

movements, and frequently traveled through Europe to draw

inspiration from each other as well.

It was blending science engineering art and human

inspirations

EARLY MODERNISM

The Home Insurance

Building in Chicago

The Crystal Palace, London


AVANT GARDE MOVEMENT: The avant-garde (from French,

"advance guard" or "vanguard”, Literally "fore-guard") are

people or works that are :

Experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art

, culture & politics.

Early modernist house, Timaru


Modernism in architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe

, Walter Gropius

Modernism in furniture

Mies van der Rohe WalterGropius

Le Corbusier


INTERNATIONAL STYLE

Walter gropius

Mies Van Der Rohe

Le Corbusier


The typical characteristics of International Style buildings:

Rectilinear forms

Plane surfaces that are completely devoid of applied

ornamentation

And open, even fluid, interior spaces.


BUILDING FOR PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE

BRUTALISM : exploring versatility of RCC

ROMANTICISM : exploring the local context

NEO EXPRESSIONISM : building as a symbol

Alternatives to the International Styles


MONUMENTALITY : conveys the feeling of its eternity

Louis I Khan(I.I.M. AHMEDABAD),Jhon Utzon (Sydney Opera

House),Alvar Aalto Finland Architect


Evolved from Modernism

Inadequacy of Modernism

The public was once again acknowledged as a participant of

architecture, whose voice cannot

be ignored.

Was determined not to be boring

like modernism and made a

conscious effort to be interesting

always. Sony Tower, Osaka,

Late Modernism


Slick Tech Architecture

Extension of the brutalist ideas

Idea of honesty of expression carried to an extreme.

Honesty of services

Honesty of structure

Nicholas Grimshaw, Waterloo Terminal,

London


Honesty of function

Highly exaggerated form of expression

Emergence of a new aesthetic derived from constructional

honesty. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers,

Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1971-7


Post Modernism

1960s - the emergence of Post-Modernism, a way of thinking of

architecture that is quite different from the Approach of

International Style designers.

Mies Van de Rohe “Less is more “ (National Gallery, London)

Robert Venturi “Less is a bore” (Vanna Venturi House

Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)


Charles Moore: Plazza d’italia, New Orleans

Michael Graves: Humana Building, Kentucky


Neo Modernism

Neo modern art is a reaction to the complexity of postmodern

architecture and eclecticism,

seeking greater simplicity.

It ejects classical ornamentation,

decorations, and deliberate

ambitions to continue

pre-modernist traditions.

Coop Himmelblau Attic Remodelling for office , Vienna

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Lecture i introduction to modern history