international architectural style

1. ATHAR MOHAMMAD
15DPID345
UNIVERSITY POLYTECHNIC,
AMU, ALIGARH
INTERNATIONAL
STYLE
IN ARCHITCTURE

2. What is International Style?
About International Style
Characteristic of International Style
Design principles of International Style
Famous Architects
Famous building of International style

3. In Architecture this term describes a type of
design that developed mainly in Germany ,
Holland and France during 1920’s.
Mirrors early 20th century development
visual arts.
Merging of Aesthetics with functionality was
one of the main feature.
Mass produced materials, economical,
functional, efficient society, urban center.

4. 20thIt became the dominant style of century
architecture for institutional and commercial
buildings , and super ceded the traditional
historical style
International Style:
› Volume
› Regularity
› Avoid Decoration
The ideals of the style can
“ornament is a crime”
“form follows function”
be summed up in four slogans:
“truth to materials”
“machines for living”
(Le Corbusier)

6. MAIN FUNCTIONAL FEATURES :-
•WINDOW
•RAMP
•STAIRS
•COLUMN
Naked concrete building
•He was also especially concerned to maximize the entry of light into
a building by replacing load-bearing walls in its facade.
•His somewhat utopian designs, often characterized by the heavy
use of reinforced pre-cast concrete, paved the way for Brutalism, a
super-functional style of urban and campus architecture

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ARCHITECT- LE CORBUSIER
YEAR - 1929
LOCATION- POISSY, PARIS, FRANCE

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EVOLUTION
OF FORM
GROUND
FLOOR HASAN
ALMOST SEMI-
CIRCLE FACING
NORTH,
ILLUSTRATING
AUTOMOBILES
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• He wanted to have the building
revolve around the car.
•Corbusier uses French to
describe the five points:
•The actual form
of the building
looks as if it’s
floating on the
piece of land that
it is standing on.
· pilotis- Stilt
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faҫade libre- free facad
fenȇtre en longueur-
window length
· plan libre- free plan
· toit-jardin- roof top
garden
• The stilts actually become visible as you approach the
building

10. Vehicle circulation
•Ramp circulation
inside the house
•A sink in the
foyer area where
the owner would
come in from a
hard day at work
and wash his
impurities away
and settle into
his home.
•Three car space parking
•Direct entry to the house
roof garden.
and
•Ritualistic entrance is taken by
the car around the outside of the
house between the 'pilotis'.

11. ROOF PLAN

12. BATHROOM
BEDROOM
•The bathroom is
topped with
mosaic tiles which
cover it's walls
and the chaise
long bench which
allows the
occupier to slip
straight into the
equally adorned
sunken bath
• The bedroom is the
combining of the
bathroom and the
bedroom spaces,
which 'are barely
separated
curtain'
by
a The long
windows running
along the South of
the building.

13. Living room separated by
a large window from roof
•The roof terrace another of Le
Corbusier 5 points of architecture is
a large outdoor space utilized as a
garden, a clean tiled free of grit and
dirt garden.
• The terrace also has the outside
ramp, a continuing driving force of
motion through the house and the
horizontal plane of windows is
continued along the protective
outside wall, which blocks the
elements of wind from the terrace,
with cut away view finders.

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SOUTH ELEVATIONNORTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION

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HORIZONTAL SECTION

17. LIVING ROOM RAMP
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KITCHEN

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section of stairs and
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•The use of reinforced concrete was a very modern
method of construction
•Villa Savoye had a concept of open plan and free
space. He used REINFORCED CONCRETE for
structural integrity.
•It can be used to create curves with ease and
flexibility in creating complex shapes, allowing to
create the solarium and U-shaped ground floor.
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20. CONSTRUCTION DETAIL

23. •All the construction is done with:
oConcrete
oReinforced Steel
oRock Foundation
•Entire house is cantilevered in
japanese style.
•Gives an organic feel , influenced
by the river it is built upon.

24. Wright described it as the principle of repose where forest, stream, rock and
all elements of structures are combined quietly.

25. WAY OVER THE
BRIDGE TO
ENTRANCE
TERRACE
GUEST HOUSE
PLUNG POOL

26. FALLING WATER FLOOR PLAN

27. WOODEN CEILIG IS USED
SKY LIGHT PROVIDED
HUGE GLASS WINDOWS ARE
PROVIDED AS A PART OF
ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE
STAIRCASE ARE
MADE WITH WOODEN
PLANKS

28. Horizontal
elements- poured
concrete
Planes (horizontal
and vertical)
differentiated by
changes in colour,
texture and
material
highlights scale
Vertical elements constructed in native stone- gives a sculptural quality though at the
same still highlighting the horizontal.

29. WOODEN CEILING
LIGHT SCREEN
IN LIVING
ROOM
EXPOSED BOUNDARIES

30. Detail draws eye to the
ceiling- emphasize the
horizontal and change in form
Strong visual accent
HEARTH SYMBOLIC
COMFORT
Attempt to blur the
distinction between the
interior and exterior
Combination of materials
in interior harmonizes with
outside
INTERIORS OF FALLING WATERS

31. Repetition of
form in
furniture
continues to
accentuate
the horizontal
Simple interior
encourages
the
incorporation
of outdoors as
part of the
overall design
OPEN SPACE
EMPHASISES SCALE OF
ROOM
WINDOW FRAME VIEW

32. WATERS
DIFFERENT VIEWS AND SKETCHES OF FALLING

33. Early Work
Prairie Style
Organic architecture
Revival of past,
Spiral (100’)
Unified
Purity
Movement
Competes with/
enhances artwork
Sculpture Resemblance to
forms in nature
Organic Experience
Defies/Mimics regularity
of Intl style

34. SITTING ARRANGEMENT
SKY LIGHT
FALSE CEILING
CORRIDOR

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