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Modern Architecture - MSN Encarta Among notable early modern architectural projects are exuberant and richly decorated buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh; imaginative designs for a city of the future by Italian visionary Antonio Sant’Elia; and houses with flowing interior spaces and projecting roofs by the American pioneer of modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright. As the 20th century began they believed it was necessary to invent an architecture that expressed the spirit of a new age and would surpass the styles, materials, and technologies of earlier architecture. He attributed his new architectural concepts to educational building blocks he had played with as a child, to Japanese architecture, and to the prairie landscape on which many of his houses were built. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761595616/Modern_Architecture.html   (0 words)

Reconstructing Modernism: The Shifting Narratives of Chinese Modernist Architecture, abstract This article is a study of the revisionist discourses surrounding Chinese modernist architecture. The author contends that the recent interest in modernist architecture is tied to the renewed desire for modernity in the post-Mao period. Moreover, assertions of a distinct indigenous modernist tradition revolve around a local/national dichotomy that pits Shanghai against the rest of the county. mclc.osu.edu /jou/abstracts/shi.htm   (167 words)

The Roots of Modernist Church Architecture by Duncan Stroik Later, inspired by non-objective painting and sculpture, Modernist architecture sought to end the distinctions between floor and ceiling, interior and exterior, window and wall, and sacred and profane, which architecture has historically gloried in. Aesthetically, Modernist architecture was inspired by works of engineering including bridges, industrial buildings, and temporary exposition halls which were large, economical, and built fast. The preservation movement, repentant Modernist architects, along with architectural historians and structural disasters, have exposed the limitations and failures of Modernism. www.stroikarchitect.com /pubs/roots.php   (0 words)

Guillén, M.F.: The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist ... In The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical, Mauro Guillén recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management--one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture. Modernist architecture's pioneers, Guillén shows, found in scientific management the promise of a new, functional, machine-like--and beautiful--architecture, and the prospect of a new role for the architect as technical professional and social reformer. Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical provides a new understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management. press.princeton.edu /titles/8163.html   (0 words)

Melilla - Tourist Promotion of Melilla - Modernist Melilla The modernist Melilla that we know today was built at the beginning of the 20th Century, and is the result of a mixture of styles practiced by architects who believed in the city, imbuing it with a serene and vigorous elegance. This modernist essence was brought to Melilla by the architect Enrique Nieto, a disciple of Gaudí, who, at the start of the last century escaped from the shadow of the Catalan genius to let his imagination run free in the streets of this north-African city. The leading proponent of this type of architecture was the famous Enrique Nieto, whose building at number 5 Padre Lerchundi is clear example of a style which gave way to new styles in the second half of the last century. www.melillaturismo.com /ingles/modernista.htm   (1225 words)

The Laws of Architecture Architecture can be reduced to a set of rules that are akin to the laws of physics. Modernist architecture disregards the basic human need for a comfortable mental environment in which to live and work. Modernist architects have not paid serious attention to the human need for emotional well-being in an architectural setting: something vital in human consciousness could well be damaged by an environment that lacks structural order. www.math.utsa.edu /ftp/salingar.old/Laws.html   (4541 words)

Architecture and Public Space The architectural language invented by the Italian Renaissance architects became the dominant architectural language of the modern world, displaced only by the advent of modernist architecture in the twentieth century. By being as much an exterior architecture as an interior one, the dome is about the public space in Florence and serves as a visual gravitational center to the civic life of the city. The Renaissance architecture of the fifteenth century is dominated by flat surfaces and strong lines which emphasize the principles of architecture. www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/REN/ARCHI.HTM   (1585 words)

"Charles, Prince of Wales: architectural contributions", an appreciation by Nikos A. Salingaros The school became embroiled in the British architectural debate, and was identified as a backward-looking stronghold of conservatism. In that context, all architectural theories are a matter of personal preference, and in Orwellian fashion, the one with the strongest political support suppresses all the others. He has established a bond with people who feel marginalized and displaced by modernist architecture and urbanism, and this is indeed one of the strongest points in favor of his succession to the throne. www.math.utsa.edu /~salingar/Charles.html   (3209 words)

Save modernist houses, Friends beg - The Boston Globe Friends of Modern Architecture, a loosely organized group of Lincoln residents, hopes to persuade owners of modernist houses that they are worth saving and offer ideas and technical assistance from experts to do that. Other modernist architects followed, finding receptiveness to their ideas from the forward-looking residents of Lincoln, who tend to favor a curious mix of traditionalism and progressivism. Lincoln residents who want to preserve modernist architecture aren't trying to prevent alterations in homes but rather to suggest ways that take advantage of the original principles and perhaps build on them. www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/04/08/save_modernist_houses_friends_beg   (1026 words)

Bauhaus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. So the built output of Bauhaus architecture in these years is the output of Gropius: the Sommerfeld house in Berlin, the Otte house in Berlin, the Auerbach house in Iena, and the competition design for the Chicago Tribune Tower, which brought the school much attention. The Bauhaus had a major impact on art and architecture trends in Western Europe and the United States in the decades following its demise, as many of the artists involved fled or were exiled by the Nazi regime. www.russianantique.com /architecture/2501.html   (1316 words)

Darwinian Processes and Memes in Architecture: A Memetic Theory of Modernism The modernist vocabulary of plain, featureless surfaces in a flat geometry of cubes and rectangles eliminates substructure; eliminates borders; eliminates contrast and color in design by using only plain white or gray; and finally, tries to eliminate the building material itself through its replacement by glass panes [23]. Architecture students are infected with modernist memes by their teachers, and are under pressure to conform to the accepted style. In the case of architecture, the evolution of design that is adaptive to human needs is taking place mostly outside the establishment: either spurred by architects who have been evicted from the establishment, or by other professionals who have discovered that the existing complex is too rigid to deal with societal problems. cfpm.org /jom-emit/2002/vol6/salingaros_na&mikiten_tm.html   (10328 words)

Architecture and Morality: Philip Johnson: the Modernist Anti-hero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Whereas Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, and Le Corbusier were the Modernist movement’s pioneer philosophers and innovators, Johnson was its director of public relations, particularly in the context of its acceptance by the American cultural and commercial mainstream. Johnson, who was as much a socialite and power-broker as he was an architect, managed to make the Modernist architecture acceptable to the American market by presenting it as simply a style than as an all-encompassing social and aesthetic philosophy that it had hitherto been. At the end of his life, Johnson was celebrated for his accomplishments in mainstreaming Modernist Architecture to the consuming masses, his ability to effortless switch styles and helped usher its subsequent counter-movement by means of the Post-Modern style. architectureandmorality.blogspot.com /2006/01/philip-johnson-modernist-anti-hero.html   (1158 words)

Léon Krier - The Richard H. Driehaus Prize Book - Publication Materials - School of Architecture - University of ... Until the mid-1960s, Luxembourg was a miracle of traditional architecture, a small capital city of 70,000 souls, embedded in manicured agricultural and horticultural landscapes and lofty beach forests. Practicing traditional architecture today is then not a refuge in past styles or history, but a return to mature and experienced forms of environment building and management. As Schinkel put it, progress in architecture has been so vast in the past that only the finest eye can detect an eventual improvement in the classical orders; progressing the art cannot be the concern of everyday architectural practice. architecture.nd.edu /publications/driehaus_prize_book.shtml   (2809 words)

Palm Springs Real Estate Agent - Bryan Vincent - Modernist Architecture Latest Attraction But scattered throughout the city are scores of modernist gems ranging from tiny office buildings and 1,000-square-foot homes to a quirky former gas station, an eye-catching city hall and sleek, multimillion-dollar estates of glass and steel. Palm Springs' modernist buildings are more modest: mainly residences and small municipal and commercial buildings by respected West Coast-based architects including Albert, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Stewart Williams, William Cody and Donald Wexler. Modernist architecture first appeared in Palm Springs in the 1930s and '40s. www.bryanvincent.com /modernist-architecture.htm   (1236 words)

Roger Scruton, Architecture needs a grammar The degradation of our cities is the result of a "modernist vernacular," whose principal device is the stack of horizontal layers, with jutting and obtrusive corners, built without consideration for the street, without a coherent facade, and without intelligible relation to its neighbors. Because architecture is a practice dominated by talentless people, manifestos and theories of the kind the modernists proliferated are especially dangerous, for they excite people to be bold and radical in circumstances where they should be modest and discreet. It is with modern architecture as it has been with socialism, sexual liberation, and a thousand other modern fads: those who defend them draw no other lesson from their failure than the thought that they have not yet gone far enough. www.ellopos.net /politics/eu_scruton.html   (1128 words)

Representative Rebel? . - Reviews - Moekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture - book review ... Moekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture. Most books discussing twentieth-century Japanese architecture are monographs with little text, and, because of the realities of architectural publishing, these formats allow a less than critical view of their respective subjects. The emergence of a Japanese modernist architecture, naturally an important topic in any survey of the twentieth century, is addressed in few texts in either Japanese or English. findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0425/is_1_62/ai_99377982   (928 words)

Modernist architecture: utopias in sky|11Mar06|Socialist Worker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) In fact the roots of modernist architecture lie in the post?revolutionary moment of the early 20th century. Their architecture would reject ornament and Victorian prissiness as a dishonest attempt to hide labour and technology behind the styles of the past. Modernist movements in architecture were always essentially utopian, and as such suffered a fate common to all attempts at utopia under capitalism. www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=8438   (928 words)

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The first was an invitation from his sister Margaret ("Gretl") Stonborough (who was painted by Gustav Klimt in 1905) to work on the design and construction of her new house. Wittgenstein found the work intellectually absorbing, and exhausting — he poured himself into the design in painstaking detail, including even small aspects such as doorknobs and radiators (which had to be exactly positioned to maintain the symmetry of the rooms). As a work of modernist architecture the house evoked some high praise; G. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wittgenstein   (6564 words)

Modernist architecture Between both dates they took place manifold attempts, initiatives and discussions, that gave rise to other several organizations oriented to the improvement and renovation of crafts works, in opposition to the use and superiority of the machines. In spite of these variants, aesthetically the movement stayed bound to the origin ideas, mainly, through the work of Walter Seeds, first president of "Arts and Crafts" that once in a while expressed its opposition to the new tendencies. From the spirit who contributes "Society of Arts and Offices" derives a new type of architecture, the modernism, supported in its decorative sense of the construction, that breaks the aesthetic one of century XIX, changing totally the own art of the same one. architecture.arqhys.com /history/modernist.html   (357 words)

fabprefab - modernist prefab dwellings Custom-designed modernist architecture is beyond the financial reach of many people and so prefab is viewed as a design and production ideology that has the potential to deliver affordable modernism. Modernist prefab is still more of a meme than a marketplace. Our goal at fabprefab is to provide a forum for exploring developments in the modernist prefab marketplace. www.fabprefab.com   (0 words)

Amazon.com: Architecture Today: Books: James Steele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Architecture Today is divided thematically into sixteen chapters, offering an incisive critique of the predominant trends, stylistic and regional, of the last twenty-five years. architecture (7), profession (2), josh-xmas (1), modern architecture (1), a blessing to architecture the enthusias... As an architectural student I had to get Trachenberg for a class, but flipping through Steele I knew they were both on the same highly written quality. www.amazon.com /Architecture-Today-James-Steele/dp/0714836176   (2005 words)

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His work preserves modernist architecture - The Boston Globe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Of the series in the Williamstown show, the one of the Guggenheim is the finest and most daring. Wright's radical architecture inspired furious debate, including a petition signed by Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and other star painters of the day, claiming the building wasn't suitable for the display of art. Wright countered that the building was the museum's most important work of art, setting off the art vs. architecture argument that, a half-century later, is still going strong. www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/06/27/his_work_preserves_modernist_architecture   (1025 words)

Norfolk Historic Buildings Group - Patronage of modernist architecture in norfolk by stephan muthesius Patronage of Modernist Architecture in Norfolk by Stefan Muthesius Thus we may conclude: UEA's architecture was imposed on us by outsiders, the first vice Chancellor, Frank Thistlethwaite, who was a Cambridge don, and the architect, a member of London's avant-garde's. Architecture at the University of East Anglia 1962-2000, Unicorn Press, London 2001. www.nhbg.fsnet.co.uk /muthesius1.htm   (0 words)

Architecture News & Competitions | Dexigner The facade of modern architecture is recognized as a entirely new meaning system that separates from the structure of the building and becomes as essential as interior through the various experiments; technical improvement, pervasive mass media, etc. As various interests and attempts to transform the building surface into different aspects increase, the facade of modern architecture is developed into the new architectural status so that it interacts with people and leads to create the method of communication. The Miami office of internationally renowned architecture, planning, engineering and interior design firm LEO A DALY is pleased to announce the appointment of Taghi Afkham as senior healthcare project manager. www.dexigner.com /architecture/news.html   (0 words)

CBC.ca - Arts - Art & Design - Modern Love Modernist pioneers like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius also had an interest in good design for the masses — an ideal that frequently made the masses nervous. On the upside, says Enns, “We just finished a fantastic restoration of the Russell Building, which is the Faculty of Architecture building at the U of M, and a fantastic restoration of the Manitoba Health Services building on Empress [Street].” Both the Russell and the Manitoba Health Services building are featured in the show. A fl-and-white photograph of the original Winnipeg airport graces the cover of the exhibition catalogue; the photo was taken by the late Henry Kalen, the city’s pre-eminent architectural photographer of the period. www.cbc.ca /arts/artdesign/winnipegmodern.html   (1861 words)

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