Transcript Prairie Style Architecture

This is not modern
1.1.3 Architectural Styles
Modern Architecture
Sarah Hamercheck
Modern Architecture
What is Modern?
• Less coherent and with much looser boundaries than other styles,
modern architecture is technically not even a singular style! Evolving
over the years with aspects of many styles and many different
Architects working out the ‘style’.
• Worked with by tons of architects and critics, Frank Lloyd Write and
Jonathan Glancey as examples.
• "Modernism was not simply a style: but more of an attitude, a
determination to break with the past and free the architect from the
stifling rules of convention and etiquette." -Jonathan Glancey
Modern Architecture
• Can be a commercial building or a
residential building.
• Homes are normally 1 or 2 floors,
but that does very.
• Commercial buildings depend on
the business for floor number.
• Materials varied: to name a few
-Glass
-Steel
-Concrete
• Located across the world
www.wikipedia.org
Characteristics
• Works with simplification of design, no
“unnecessary details”
• Works large amounts of glass
• Use of industry produced materials
• Visual expression of structure
• True to materials, anything visible has a
purpose, be it altered to not be as obvious or
not.
References
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"Striking Modern Architecture Defining S.Roque House I in Portugal." Striking Modern
Architecture Defining S.Roque House I in Portugal. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2014.
<http://freshome.com/2012/05/23/striking-modern-architecture-defining-s-roquehouse-i-in-portugal/>.http://freshome.com/2013/03/29/imposing-modern-architecturein-sri-lanka-chamila-rohitha-house/
"The Blog." Beagle Research Group LLC RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2014.
<http://beagleresearch.com/subscriptions-in-the-enterprise/>.
"Imposing Modern Architecture in Sri Lanka: Chamila & Rohitha House."Imposing
Modern Architecture in Sri Lanka: Chamila & Rohitha House. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan.
2014. <http://freshome.com/2013/03/29/imposing-modern-architecture-in-sri-lankachamila-rohitha-house/>.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salk_Institute.jpg
"Jonathan Glancey."www.theguardian.com. Guardian News and Media, n.d. Web. 29
Jan. 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathanglancey
"Viahouse.Com." Viahouse.Com. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.viahouse.com/2013/12/have-you-know-modern-architecture-letsunderstand/modern-architecture-2/>.
References
• Bose, Sudip. "National Trust for Historic
Preservation." preservationnation.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2008/may-june/whatis-modernism.html>.
• "Modern architecture." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Jan.
2014. Web. 29 Jan. 2014.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_archiecture