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Late Modern Architecture Trends

The document discusses late modern architecture, which emerged in the 1970s in response to factors like the decline of the international style and boredom with standardization. Late modern architecture was characterized by loyalty to modern principles but with a focus on communication with users through emphasis on structure and technology to add aesthetic value. Key trends of late modernism included sculptural and hyperbolic forms, extreme articulation of materials, revival of 1920s styles, and a second machine aesthetic emphasizing skeletal structures. Examples discussed include Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel and Saarinen's TWA terminal.

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Late Modern Architecture Trends

The document discusses late modern architecture, which emerged in the 1970s in response to factors like the decline of the international style and boredom with standardization. Late modern architecture was characterized by loyalty to modern principles but with a focus on communication with users through emphasis on structure and technology to add aesthetic value. Key trends of late modernism included sculptural and hyperbolic forms, extreme articulation of materials, revival of 1920s styles, and a second machine aesthetic emphasizing skeletal structures. Examples discussed include Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel and Saarinen's TWA terminal.

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  • Introduction to Late Modern Architecture Trends: Provides an introductory overview of the topic Late Modern Architecture for fourth stage architecture students.
  • Late Modernism: Outlines the origins, main factors, and characteristics of Late Modernism in architecture.
  • Late Modernism Principles: Describes the four key principles of Late Modern architecture including loyalty, communication with users, flexibility, and benefits of past experiences.
  • Sculptural Form and Hyperbole: Explores the emphasis on geometric expression and contradictions through reinforced concrete in architectural design.
  • Late Modernism Trends: Lists five notable trends in Late Modern architecture, highlighting each one's influence on the design ethos.
  • Extreme Articulation: Details extreme articulation in architecture focusing on simple geometry, material usage, and rhythmic elements.
  • X-Team and New Trends: Explains the influence of X-team and new design trends focusing on psychological needs and regionalism.

Late Modern Architecture

Trends

Theory of Architecture
Fourth Stage
Assis. Lecturer Raghad Ahmed Fadhil
Architecture Engineering Department
College of Engineering/ Mustansiriyah University
 The movement name came from critics in 1977 to
Identify it from other trends in the same time,
especially Post-Modernism.
 The Main Factors in Late Modern Architecture
Appearance:
 1. The Decline of Modern architecture (International
Late Style).
Modernism  2. The Second Industrial Revolution (Space Craft,
Electronics, Computers).
 3. The Boredom of typical repetition of buildings with
modules, mass production, and standardization.
 4. Architecture lost its communication with people
and ignored their needs.
Late Modernism Principles
 1. Loyalty to Modern Architecture principles (Rationality,
The Museum of Modern Art, Japan, 1974 Function , and Modern Technology)
 2. Communication with User (extreme emphasis on
building structure and Hi- technology to express the
aesthetic values). Single coded architecture, as described
by Charles Jenks because it represents the concepts and
forms of modern movement extremely to building
technology as a try to add aesthetic values, and delight to
Sainsbury Centre, UK, 1977 the user.
 3. Flexibility (buildings are designed to meet user’s
needs).
 4. The Benefit of Past experiences (Revivalism of
twentieth architecture, the production of distinct
architecture which is different from the existing
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1977 buildings).
1. Sculptural Form and Hyperbole
Late 2. Extreme Articulation
Modernism 3. Second Machine Aesthetic
Trends 4. Slick Tech
5. Twenties Revivalism
1. Sculptural Form
and Hyperbole
 1.Using reinforced concrete in
geometric expression.
 2.Metaphor from nature (waves,
birds, etc.).
 3.Emphasis on skeletal structure
with uniform curves.
Notre Dame du
 4.Using contradiction in forms Ronchamp
and shapes. Le Corbusier
 5.It is known as “Form as Form” 1950
Sculptural
Form and
Hyperbole
TWA Terminal, Eero Saarrinen, 1962

Opera Sydney
John Otzon 1972
2. Extreme Articulation Kimbell
 1.Reaction on flat surfaces
museum
 2.Using simple geometry Louis Kahn
 3.Using multiple materials (steel, wood,
concrete)
 4.Rhythmic repetition of elements
(stylish exaggeration)
 5.Emphasis on skeletal system (skin and
bone).
 6. Structure’s details (joints) as
ornament
 7. Influenced by x-team and brutalism
 Luis Kahn ideal "structure is space"
Extreme Yale University, Art Gallery
Louis Kahn 1953
Articulation

Phillips Exeter academy, Library Amestrdam Housing


Louis Kahn 1972 Aldo Van Eyck 1952
X-team
▪ Members of CIAM organized
the 10th meeting in 1956
▪ Alison and peter smithson
led the team
▪ Paying attention to human
psychological needs
▪ Interest in new age needs
▪ Applying order in design
▪ Interest in regionalism
▪ Encouraging participatory
design
▪ New brutalism according to
place's identity
Eastwood Housing Project
Jose Louis Sert 1975
Thank You

Late Modern Architecture Trends Theory of Architecture Fourth Stage Assis. Lecturer Raghad Ahmed Fadhil Architecture Engineer
Late Modernism The movement name came from critics in 1977 to Identify it from other trends in the same time, especially
Late Modernism Principles 1. Loyalty to Modern Architecture principles (Rationality, Function , and Modern Technology) 2.
Late Modernism Trends 1. Sculptural Form and Hyperbole 2. Extreme Articulation 3. Second Machine Aesthetic 4. Slick Tech
1. Sculptural Form and Hyperbole 1.Using reinforced concrete in geometric expression. 2.Metaphor from nature (waves, bir
Sculptural Form and Hyperbole Opera Sydney John Otzon 1972 TWA Terminal, EeroSaarrinen, 1962
2. Extreme Articulation 1.Reaction on flat surfaces 2.Using simple geometry 3.Using multiple materials (steel, wood, conc
Extreme Articulation Phillips Exeter academy, Library Louis Kahn 1972 Amestrdam Housing Aldo Van Eyck 1952 Yale University,
X-team Members of CIAM organized the 10th meeting in 1956 Alison and peter smithson led the team Paying attention to huma
Thank You

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