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The document discusses the principles and history of Hi-Tech architecture. It emerged in the 1970s utilizing elements of high technology and industry with exposed structures and mechanical elements. Key pioneers included Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano. Important examples are the Pompidou Center in Paris and Lloyd's Building in London. Hi-Tech architecture emphasized exposed structure, use of new materials, and a functional industrial aesthetic celebrating technology.

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The document discusses the principles and history of Hi-Tech architecture. It emerged in the 1970s utilizing elements of high technology and industry with exposed structures and mechanical elements. Key pioneers included Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano. Important examples are the Pompidou Center in Paris and Lloyd's Building in London. Hi-Tech architecture emphasized exposed structure, use of new materials, and a functional industrial aesthetic celebrating technology.

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HI-TECH STYLE

IN
ARCHITECTURE

7 TH S E M E S T E R
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY THEORY & CRITICISM
WHAT IS HI-TECH ARCHITECTURE

 Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism

 Elements high-tech industry and technology, emerged in the 1970s

 Exposed structure

 category serves as a bridge between modernism and post-modernism

 The book High Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for The Home by

design journalists Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin published in November

1978
REASONS: FOR THE RISE OF HI- TECH ARCHITECTURE

 Decline of post Modernism

 New construction technologies

 New factory made materials

 New concepts

 Introduction of architectural engineering.

 Mainly in North America and Europe


PRINCIPLES OF HI-TECH STYLE

 Uncomplicated plans

 Use of factory produced materials

 Exposed structural system

 Exposed free standing structures for aesthetics


PRINCIPLES OF HI-TECH STYLE

 It is deeply connected with what is called the

Second School of Chicago, which emerged after


World War II. The main content is that the
technological kind of construction, mostly with
steel and glass, is expressed in a formal
independent way to gain own aesthetic qualities
out of it.

 The first proper example is the 860-880 Lake

Shore Drive Apartments by Ludwig Mies van der


Rohe. The apartments, which were built in 1951,
were essential to the development of High-tech
architecture.
Lake Shore Drive Apartments
PRINCIPLES OF HI-TECH STYLE

 Another aspect to the aims of high-tech architecture was that of a


renewed belief in the power of technology to improve the world.

 This is especially evident in Kenzo Tange’s plans for technically


sophisticated buildings in Japan's post-war boom in the 1960s, but few of
these plans actually became buildings.

 industrial aesthetic, spurred on by the renewed faith in the progression of


technology. But however prominent the industrial look appeared, the
functional element of modern architecture was very much retained.

 This dynamic property means that a building should be a "catalyst", the


"technical services are provided but do not become set."
PRINCIPLES OF HI-TECH STYLE

 "spirit of the age" and that architecture has a moral duty to express that
spirit. The spirit of our age, according to High Tech architects, resides in
advanced technology

 prominent display of the building's technical and functional components,


and an orderly arrangement and use of pre-fabricated elements.

 Glass walls and steel frames are also immensely popular.

 To boast technical features, they were externalized, often along with load-
bearing structures.

 It is greatly indebted to modern architecture, and influenced


 by Mies van der Rohe's highrise buildings.
PRINCIPLES OF HI-TECH STYLE

VERY FUNCTIONAL BUILDINGS

MECHANICAL DUCTS

STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS
PIONEERS OF
HI-TECH ARCHITECTURE
PIONEERS OF
HI-TECH ARCHITECTURE

NORMAN FOSTER Michael Hopkins

Renzo Piano Santiago Calatrava RICHARD ROGERS


IN MID 70’s

TEAM 4

 
NORMAN FOSTER RICHARD ROGERS
Su Brumwell Wendy
Cheeseman

RENZO PIANO

Wendy sis Georgie left team 4 after a few months.


HI-TECH IN EARLY 80’s

 FASHIONABLE STYLE FOR INTERIORS

 ARCHITECTURAL MOVEMENT
STYLES OF NORMAN FOSTER & RICHARD ROGERS

 MOST SUCCESSFUL ARCHITECTS OF 21st CENTURY

 Designed number of galleries, museums, bridges, corporate

buildings, airports etc.


STYLE OF RENZO PIANO

 Softer & organic approach

 Investigated possibilities of timber, bricks &

plywood and used in hi-tech structures.


OTHER IMPORTANT HI-TECH ARCHITECTS

 Gunter behnisch

 Nicholas grimshaw

 Rafael vinoly
IMPORTANT EXAMPLES OF
HI-TECH ARCHITECTURE
POMPIDOU CENTER, PARIS

ARCHITECT:RENZO PIANO, RICHARD ROGERS AND PARTNERS


POMPIDOU CENTER

ARCHITECT:RENZO PIANO, RICHARD ROGERS AND PARTNERS


POMPIDOU CENTER

ARCHITECT:RENZO PIANO, RICHARD ROGERS AND PARTNERS


REICHSTAG BUILDING,BERLIN

ARCHITECT: NORMAN FOSTER


REICHSTAG BUILDING, BERLIN

ARCHITECT: NORMAN FOSTER


ST MARY AXE BUILDING

ARCHITECT: NORMAN FOSTER


SAINSBURY CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS, NORWICH

ARCHITECT: NORMAN FOSTER & WENDY FOSTER


SAINSBURY CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS, NORWICH

ARCHITECT: NORMAN FOSTER & WENDY FOSTER


STANSTED AIRPORT, LONDON

ARCHITECT: NORMAN FOSTER.


LLOYDS BUILDING, LONDON

ARCHITECT:RICHARD ROGERS & PARTNERS


MELLINIUM DOME

ARCHITECT: RICHARD RODERS


LOUVER PYRAMID, PARIS

ARCHITECT: IEOH
LOUVER PYRAMID, PARIS

ARCHITECT: IEOH
LLOYDS BUILDING, LONDON

ARCHITECT:RICHARD ROGERS & PARTNERS


LLOYDS BUILDING, LONDON

ARCHITECT:RICHARD ROGERS & PARTNERS


HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANK HEAD QUARTER,
HONG KONG

ARCHITECT: Norman Foster


HYSOLAR RESEARCH BUILDING, GERMANY

ARCHITECT: GUNTER BEHNISCH


LONDON CITY HALL, ENGLAND

ARCHITECT: Norman Foster & partners


LONDON CITY HALL, ENGLAND

ARCHITECT: Norman Foster & partners


LONDON CITY HALL, ENGLAND

ARCHITECT: Norman Foster & partners


JEAN-MARIE TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW, CALEDONIA

ARCHITECT: RENZO PIANO


JEAN-MARIE TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW
CALEDONIA

ARCHITECT: RENZO PIANO


JEAN-MARIE TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW
CALEDONIA

ARCHITECT: RENZO PIANO


JEAN-MARIE TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW CALEDONIA

ARCHITECT: RENZO PIANO


CHEP LAP KOK AIRPORT, HONG KONG

ARCHITECT: Norman Foster & partners


KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, JAPAN

ARCHITECT: Norman Foster & partners


KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, JAPAN

ARCHITECT: Norman Foster & partners


KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, JAPAN

ARCHITECT: Norman Foster & partners


MILLENNIUM PARK
JAY PRITZKER PAVILION BY FRANK GEHRY
MILLENNIUM PARK
JAY PRITZKER PAVILION BY FRANK GEHRY

Cloud Gate
MILLENNIUM PARK
JAY PRITZKER PAVILION BY FRANK GEHRY
PALACE OF THE ARTS IN VALENCIA

ARCHITECT:SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
THE QUADRACCI PAVILION AT MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM.

ARCHITECT:SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
AUDITORIUM IN SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE

ARCHITECT:SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
PALACE OF THE ARTS IN VALENCIA

ARCHITECT:SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF
HI-TECH STYLE

 Mechanical aesthetics

 Little consideration to traditional symbolic forms

 Hi-tech structures are a misfit in urban areas with cultural history

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