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Architecture in The Modern Era
Architecture in The Modern Era
Eclecticism
architecture of the borrowing and of free selection
Elisha Graves Otis (1870, New York) developed the first safe
passenger elevator. In addition to this, was the development of
techniques for manufacturing rolled steel.
Viennese architect
Dutch Architect
Reassessment
Universalism
Mies Van Der Rohes work is more classical formal
architectural expression
Functions are resolved within a minimum of larger
elements
Function is subject to an external order or discipline.
Personalism
Wright used the functional complexities of a building as
the integral means of form and expression.
Brutalism
Postmodernism
A trend away from the functional aesthetic of the International
Style and the severity of Brutalism.
Favored the return to the historical references
Robert Venturi