Presentation about modern architecture starts in vanguardism era with very excellent architects of that time til now.

2. INTRODUCTION-
• The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard",
literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental,
radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.
• It may be characterized by nontraditional, aesthetic innovation and
initial unacceptability, and it may offer a critique of the relationship
between producer and consumer.
• The avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark
of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism.
• The concept of avant-garde refers primarily to artists, writers,
composers and thinkers whose work is opposed to mainstream
cultural values and often has a trenchant social or political edge

3. STARTING OF VANGUARDISM..
The founding generation of
the avant-garde in France are
undoubtedly unknown and only
the successful artists, such as
Gustave Flaubert, left a mark on
history.
Avant-garde art can be said to
begin in the 1850s with
the realism of Gustave Courbet,
who was strongly influenced by
early socialist ideas. This was
followed by the successive
movements of modern art, and the
term avant-garde is more or less
synonymous with modern.
NORTH AMERICA
FRANCE
JAPAN

4. MOVEMENTSSTARTED UNDER VANGURDISM-
• Archigram
• Bauhaus
• Brutalist architecture
• Constructivist architecture
• Metabolism (architecture)
• Neofuturism
• Neoplasticism
• Rationalism (architecture)
• Russian avant-garde architects and their work
• Situationist International

5. AVANT GARDE ARCHITECTURE-
Avant-garde architecture is architecture which is innovative and radical.
There have been a variety of architects and movements whose work has
been characterised in this way, especially Modernism. Other examples
include Constructivism, Neoplasticism (De Stijl) and Expressionism.
CONCEPTS AT BEGINNING OF THE ERA..

6. ARCHITECTS INVOLVEDIN VANGUARDISM
• Cedric Price
• Daniel Libeskind
• Frank Gehry
• Frei Otto
• Greg Lynn
• Oscar Niemeyer
• Peter Eisenman
• Rem Koolhaas
• Wolf D. Prix
• Zaha Hadid
OSCAR NIEMEYER
FRANK GHERY
ZAHA HADID

7. STRUCTURES DESIGNED IN VANGUARDISMERA..
Bergisel Ski Jump, Austria
Vitra fire station, Germany
Phæno Science Center,
Wolfsburg, Germany
Ministries Esplanade with several of Niemeyer's buildings:
the National Congress, the Cathedral, the National Museum
and the National Library, Brasília, D.F., 2006
São Francisco de Assis Church,Minas Gerais, Brazil

8. CHARACTERISTICS-
• The form does not imitate any other style.
• Especial attention is given to plastic elements, in addition to function, mass, surface,
time, space, light, colour and material.
• It is an economic and functional architecture.
• It does not have any form following fixed styles and the building is not monumental,
but a form open to the space through windows.
• The ground-plan is essential but in this the walls are not closed even if they support
punctually the building.
GLASS FAÇADE (LIGHT)
CURVE PATTERN
NON- UNIFORM AND UNSYMMETRICAL
(G.I SHEETS AND CONCRETE AS ROOF
COVERING)

9. • it is an open architecture in which space and time are considered.
• it is anti-cubic and surfaces follow a centrifugal trend at the same time that
symmetry and repetition are eliminated;
• there is not a clear front in the building and colour is included as a plastic
value but, in general, it is a non decorate architecture that aims to be a
synthesis of the Neo-Plasticism.
UNSYMMETRICAL
REPETITON ELEMINATED

10. Cathedral of Brasilia

11. Structure description-
ABOUT-
The Cathedral of Brasíl is the Roman Catholic cathedral serving Brasília, Brazil, and serves
as the seat of the Archdiocese of Brasília. It was designed by OSCAR NIEYEMEIR, and was
completed and dedicated on May 31, 1970. The cathedral is a hyperboloid
structure constructed from 16 concrete columns, weighing 90 tons each.
CONCEPT-
SUPPORTING CONCRETE COLUMN
HYPERBOLIC SHAPE
(FORMING A RING WITH 16 OTHER)
FORMING
HYPERBOLOID
STRUCTURE

12. DETAILS OF STRUCTURE-
HYPERBOLIC
CONTINUOS
CURVE CONCRETE
COLUMN
HYPERBOLIC SHAPES CLOUMN
FORMING A RING
FLOOR PLAN OF CATHEDRAL
INTERIOR VIEW
OF COLUMN
ROOF COVERING
OF FIBRE GLASS
CERAMIC TILES
WALL COVERING
INTERNAL VIEW OF
COLUMN FORMING A
RING AT TOP LEVEL OF
CATHEDRAL

13. MATERIALS USED-
• The walls of the oval baptistery are covered in ceramic tiles painted in
1977 by Athos Bulcão. Offices for the Archdiocese of Brasilia were
completed in 2007 next to the cathedral. The 3,000-square-metre
(32,000 sq. ft.) building connects directly to the cathedral underground.
Ceramic tiles used for cathedral wallCERAMIC TILES

14. • Visitors enter into the cathedral through a dark tunnel and emerge into a
bright space with a glass roof. The outer roof of the cathedral is composed
of sixteen pieces of fiberglass, each 10 meters (33 ft) wide at the base and
30 meters (98 ft.) long inserted between the concrete pillars. Under this is
suspended a 2,000-square-meter (22,000 sq ft) stained glass work
originally created in 1990 by Marianne Peretti, in shades of blue, green,
white, and brown.
FIBRE GLASS
CONCRETE PILLARS

15. • Inside the cathedral over the nave are sculptures of three angels,
suspended by steel cables. The shortest is 2.22 meters (7 ft 3 in) long and
weighs 100 kilograms (220 lb), the middle one 3.4 meters (11 ft) long and
weighs 200 kilograms (440 lb), and the largest is 4.25 meters (13.9 ft) long
and weighs 300 kilograms (660 lb).
STEEL CABLES
SCULPTURES

16. CONCLUSION-
SIR OSACR NIEMEYER HAD BUILT ONE BEST STRUCTURE IN VANGUARDISM ERA AND ONE
OF HIS BEST PROJECT IN THE WORLD.
THE STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTED WITH VERY FINE CONSTRUCTION METHOD AND
CONCEPT.
USE OF PARABOLIC COLUMN IS ONE OF THE BEST FEATURE OF ERA.
DEEP RELECTING POOL SURROUNDS THE CATHEDRAL ROOF,HELPING TO COOL THE
CATHEDRA AND ASHETICALLY IT WAS EXCELLENT.
IT IS BEST EXMAPLE SET BY OSCAR NIEMEYER IN HIS WHOLE CAREER.

17. REFERENCES-
• "Brasilia Cathedral". aboutbrasilia.com. About Brasilia. Retrieved December 25, 2012.
• William J. R. Curtis in "Oscar Niemeyer: architects and critics pay tribute", in The Guardian,
December 7, 2012
• Maciel, Fabiano (2010). Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida é um Sopro
• Heynen, Hilde (2004), "Avant Garde", Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol.
1, Taylor & Francis, pp. 97–99, ISBN 978-1579584337
• Picchione, John (2004). The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic
Practices. University of Toronto Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-8020-8994-6.

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