Title: What impact has technology had on architecture of the 20th century? - mainly notes Essay - 1125 Words
Headings: What impact has technology had on architecture of the 20th century? - mainly notes
What impact has technology had on architecture of the 20th century? - mainly notes
Content: He used reinforced concrete for the skeleton of this building , which is visible on its exterior, and which gives it an overall impression of lightness. This also allowed Perret to open up his floor plan in ways that were previously restructed in wood frame construction; the size of the windows was only limited by Paris bye-laws. Structure became expedient, quick to build and flexible to use. Along with Elisha OtisÕs electric elevator, these materials - as a direct result of technology - gave birth to the sky scraper and changed the face of architecture forever. Major new buildings projects churches. But more fundamental was the recognition that a new free architecture was neccessary because of the emergence of new building types for which there was no provinance in the history of styles. There were a vast programme of building types - schools, collages, libraries and above all offices. Idealization of industry: > -elimination of ornament
> -reduction of form to function (same as elimination of ornament, but
> including function also as how space is used)
> -expression of 'essentials' i.e. structure, skin, floorplate (see
> Corb's Domino house diagram)
> -new kind of ethic in architecture-truth, honesty- to the point often of
> puritanical fanaticism
> -importance of light-almost as if it could cleanse (could make claim
> about a purge of the post-grungy workshop...
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