Contemporary Architecture - Module 1
Contemporary Architecture - Module 1
Pallabi Banerjee
Architect Planner
B.Arch, M.Plan(with specialization in Housing)
MODULE
Progress in Architectural style Great exhibitions of 1851 and 1889 & Horta
Progress in Art style their contributions. H.P Berglage, H.H Richardson and True
Post Industrial Revolution in Architecture Development of Ferro concrete: August Balloon Frame Structure and Plane
Chicago School: L:ouis Sullivan Walter Gropius and Bauhaus Mies Van Der Rohe
Organic Architecture : Frank Lyod Le Corbusier Philip Johnson
Wright Louis I Kahn
Module 7: Module 8:
20th century World Architecture Indian Architecture since Independence
STYLES, CHARACTERISTICS
OPTIMUM DESIGN SOLUTIONS
VENUSTAS
FORM / AESTHETICS
VITRUVIAN TRIAD
OPTIMUM DESIGN SOLUTIONS
FORM
VITRUVIAN TRIAD
Why style changes ?
ART
Construction
Parthenon
Mosaic Fresco
ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE
Hagia Sophia,
Pendentive Vault Portal arch Cross vault
Constantinopole
Gothic Period Mannerism Period
ART ART
Samson slaying
Madona, a Philistine,
Stained Glass Window Permigianino Gambalogna
ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE
High Ornamentation
St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City; Michelangelo Villa la Rotonda, Andrea Palladio
Architectural Style
European Renaissance Industrial
14th-17th Revolution 19th
Dilemma between Old Traditional Style and craftsmanship V/s New Inventions
(Material and Technology)
Old styles can’t be incorporated in steel structures.
Pre fabrication & Mass Production V/s Craftsmanship
Due to strict rebuilding laws, many Larger Fire departments and more
businesses were forced out of Chicago resources
Ironically, a CFD training facility was More through and effective
built where Mrs. O’Leary’s barn investigative commissions.
previously stood
Post Industrial Revolution in Architecture
Organic
Against the Technology For the Machine
Aesthetic
Machine Movement emphasis and Function Movement
Internationalism
Tensile structures
Brutalism
Modernism
BRUTALISM &
FUNCTION METABOLISM
For the
Post- Modern
machine Functionalism Internationalism Form + Function
Post- Modern
FLW home &
Robie house Chrysler Kadokawa National
Studio
Post Industrial Building culture museum Congress
Revolution PHASE I PHASE II PHASE III
Modernism
Post- Modern
Figurative Abstract
Discontinuity of Visual Language
Changes in Art Style
Assignment : Module 1