ARCHITECTURE IN MODERN WORLD

Architecture in Modern World is divided into Renaissance Architecture and

Baroque Architecture.
THE RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY ( 1420- 1600 AD )
The dome is a double shell structure built according to Gothic style. Spaces
enclosing surfaces are on simple proportional relationship. Basic module utilized
the paneling of white and colored marbles. The structure established during this
time were the Santo Spirito,Pazzi Chapel, Palazzo Medici Ricccardi and Pallazo
Rucellai in Florence,Italy and Basilica of Saint Andrea in Mantua Italy.

BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE ( 1600 – 1750 )

The original meaning of the term “ BAROQUE” was odd, irregular and grotesque.
In 1880 the term lost its derogatory flavor and became associated mainly with the
architecture of Barromini and Guarini, baroque art grew out of Renaissance art.
The architecture form of the the Baroque architecture consist of two centers and
a path connecting them. One center, the interior, is located under the tomb and is
occupied by the main altar. The other center the exterior, is made up of the
oblisk.
ARCHITECTURE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Comtemporary Architecture is characterized by the use of industrial material
especially steel, glass and concrete deprived of ornamentation and assembled so
as to form simple geometrical volumes freely laid out in space.
The development of architecture prior to the international style includes
Romanticism (1750- 1850 AD) and beyond Architecture of the Engineers (1800-
1900 ad ) Architecture of the Chicago School ; Architecture of Art Nouveau ;
Architecture of Pioto- Rationalism ; and Architecture of Frank Llyod Wright up to
1914 .

ARCHITECTURE OF ROMANTICISM
The Architecture of Romantic Classicism was more linear , stiffer, geometrically
more regular and more academic than its Italian counterparts, Romantic
Naturalism expressed freedom from rules and an escape from the harsh rigor of
reason into the world of intuition and the natural.
Example of Romantic Architecture are Guardian of the Fields at Ledoux , and
German Embasssy in Petersburg and the Street Façade of Altes Museum.
The Architecture of the Engineers such as bridges, railroads and large halls for
work and exhibition were the first to exhibit new ideas and paved the way for
contemporary architecture.
Examples of the architecture of Engineers are the Severn Bridge of England and
Wales and the bridges over the Mena strait.
The Eiffel Tower proved that the new materials – iron and steel – produced by
industry could convey architectural meanings and values better than the old
traditional materials of stone and wood.
The Eiffel Tower embodies the triumph of man over the forces of nature,It
symbolizes high achievement of man- that he can conquer,subdue, and control
nature using these new materials.