2. Ar. Hena Tiwari/GCAD/Jan-July 2017
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
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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
4. Ar. Hena Tiwari/GCAD/Jan-July 2017
Modernism in architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe
, Walter Gropius
Modernism in furniture
Mies van der Rohe WalterGropius
Le Corbusier
6. Ar. Hena Tiwari/GCAD/Jan-July 2017
The typical characteristics of International Style buildings:
Rectilinear forms
Plane surfaces that are completely devoid of applied
ornamentation
And open, even fluid, interior spaces.
7. Ar. Hena Tiwari/GCAD/Jan-July 2017
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
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MONUMENTALITY : conveys the feeling of its eternity
Louis I Khan(I.I.M. AHMEDABAD),Jhon Utzon (Sydney Opera
House),Alvar Aalto Finland Architect
9. Ar. Hena Tiwari/GCAD/Jan-July 2017
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
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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
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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
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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)
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Charles Moore: Plazza d’italia,
New Orleans
Michael Graves: Humana
Building, Kentucky
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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
