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Hi-Tech Mode of Design

The document defines and discusses high-tech architecture, an emerging style in the 1970s that incorporated elements of industry and technology into building design. Key aspects included prominently displaying technical components, using pre-fabricated elements, and externalizing load-bearing structures. The Centre Pompidou in Paris is cited as a prime example that highlighted this aim of showing technical elements. Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Phillip Cox are identified as representatives of this style.

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Hi-Tech Mode of Design

The document defines and discusses high-tech architecture, an emerging style in the 1970s that incorporated elements of industry and technology into building design. Key aspects included prominently displaying technical components, using pre-fabricated elements, and externalizing load-bearing structures. The Centre Pompidou in Paris is cited as a prime example that highlighted this aim of showing technical elements. Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Phillip Cox are identified as representatives of this style.

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MODULE 2

HI TECH MODE OF
DESIGN
Definition
 Also known as Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism, is
an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating
elements of high-tech industry and technology into building
design.
 High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism, an
extension of those previous ideas helped by even more
technological advances. 
 The style got its name from the book High Tech: The Industrial
Style and Source Book for The Home, written by design
journalists Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin
 The main content is that the technological kind of construction,
mostly with steel and glass, is expressed in a formal
independent way to gain aesthetic qualities from it.
PHILOSOPHY
• Kron and Slesin further explain the term "high-
tech" as one being used in architectural circles
to describe an increasing number of residences
and public buildings with a "nuts-and-bolts,
exposed-pipes, technological look".

• A prime example of this is the Centre Pompidou


in Paris. This highlights one of the aims of high-
tech architecture, to show the technical elements
of the building by externalizing them.

• Thus,the technical aspects create the building's


aesthetic.
 For interior design there was a trend of using formerly
industrial appliances as household objects, e.g. chemical
beakers as vases for flowers.
 This was because of an aim to use an industrial aesthetic. This
was assisted by the conversion of former industrial spaces into
residential spaces.
 High-tech architecture aimed to give everything an
industrial appearance.
 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.
Characteristics
 Prominent display of the building's technical and
functional components,
 An orderly arrangement and use of pre-fabricated
elements. Helix bridge in Singapore by
COX Architecture 
 Glass walls and steel frames were also immensely
popular
 To boast technical features, they were externalized,
often along with load-bearing structures
 Many high-tech buildings meant their purposes to be
dynamic.
 Buildings designed in this style usually consist of a
Golden fish by Frank Owen
clear glass façade, with the building's network of
Gehry
support beams exposed behind it.
Representatives of high-tech architecture
are:
• Norman Foster,
• Renzo Piano,
• Richard Rogers,
• Phillip Cox
• Norman Foster
Richard Rogers Architect and Renzo Piano 
Pompidou Center modern art museum , Paris 
1972 to 1976

Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome;


designed by Renzo Piano.

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