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Source
What/Who was it
written for? Is it an
academic paper or an
expository/descriptive
essay? Context of
Comparison
purpose of writing
Concluding statement
The Problems of
Apostasy:
Architecture in the
Modern Age
Peter Kellow
http://www.nccsc.net/
essays/problemsapostasyarchitecture-modernage
His concluding
statement is how one
should design of
modern architecture,
it must be guided
with sense of beauty
and appropriateness.
Modernist
architecture - new
style, which was not
supposed to be a
style at all, reflected
the science and
technology that
defined the modern
age.
Modernism intends that we
should move into a
brand new world,
where the old
vocabulary is
dispensed with.
Modernism
principles were
described by the
phrase form follows
function wherein it
asserts that forms
should be simplified
architectural designs
should bear no more
ornament than is
necessary to function
The authors
concluding statement
is by citing examples
of the different
buildings that failed
due to following
modernist design
solutions.
Defining a More
Purposeful
Architecture: A Guide
to Current
Architectural Trends
Michael Wacht
http://www.archdaily.c
om/585599/defininga-more-purposefularchitecture-a-guideto-currentarchitecturaltrends#_=_
Purposeful
Architecture
defined by five
elements:
Diagramism, NeoBrutalism, Revitism,
Scriptism, and
Subdivisionism.