The document discusses the International Style of Architecture, which developed in the 1920s-1930s and emphasized modern materials like steel, glass, and concrete. It expresses structure directly and eliminates ornamentation. Key characteristics included rectilinear forms, exposed structures, rejection of color and ornament, and open interior spaces. Design principles involved symmetry, asymmetry, repetition, and rhythm. Prominent architects who helped define the style included Walter Gropius, J.J.P. Oud, and Le Corbusier. By the 1970s, the style had become so dominant that it stifled innovation.
3. CONTENTS
What Is International Style Of Architecture?
Characteristics Of International Style.
Design Principles Of International Style.
Famous Architects And Famous Buildings.
DeclineOf International Style.
4. What Is
Architectural
Style
is a major architectural style that was developed in the 1920s
and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modern
architecture.
It’s a style in architecture that uses modern materials (such as
steel, glass, and reinforced concrete), expresses structure
directly, and eliminates nonstructural ornament
5. What Is
Architectural
Style
The term International Style was first used in 1932 by Henry-
Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in their essay titled The
International Style: Architecture Since 1922, which served as
a catalog for an architectural exhibition held at the Museum of
Modern Art.
8. Characteristics
Of International
Style
• Exposing It’s Structure: Concrete, Glass, Steel
The use of horizontal beam like
structures, Firm plane surfaces with
light tones, use of concrete and
glass framed windows.
13. Design
Principles
Of International
Style
Repetition
Guggenheim of Frank Lloyd
Wright.
With the repetitive natural
smooth
curves that are illustration a
sense
of motion, with the use of
light tones and flat roofing
makes
this a similar design or at
least
a resemblance in bothThe
International style and the
Guggenheim itself.
14. Famous
ArchitectsAnd
Their Buildings
Walter Gropius
Walter AdolphGeorg Gropius
(18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect
and founder of the Bauhaus School,
who, along with Alvar Aalto,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,
Le Corbusier and Frank LloydWright,
is widely regarded as one of the pioneering
masters of modernist architecture.
Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style
18. Famous
ArchitectsAnd
Their Buildings
Le Corbuseir
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
(6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965),
known as Le Corbusier (French),
was a Swiss-French architect, designer,
painter, urban planner, writer,
and one of the pioneers of what is now
called modern architecture.
20. CriticismOf
International
Style
In 1930, Frank LloydWright wrote: "Human houses should not be
like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the Machine
by trying to make dwelling-places too complementary to
Machinery.“
By the 1970s, the international style was so dominant that
innovativation was dead .Mies continued to design beautiful
buildings, but was copied everywhere. As the saying went “You
got off an airplane in 1970s, and you don’t know where you were”.
