It is a development in POST-MODERNISM that started in late 1980s.
It views architecture in bits and pieces.
It has no visual logic.
Buildings may appear to be made of abstract forms.
The idea was to develop buildings which show how differently from traditional architectural conventions buildings can be built without loosing their utility and still complying with the fundamental laws of physics.
The ideas were borrowed from the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida.
Architects involved –
Zaha Hadid
Bernhard Tschumi
Rem Koolhaas
The term ‘Critical Regionalism’ was first coined by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre and later more famously and pretentiously by Kenneth Frampton in “Towards a Critical Regionalism : Six points of an architecture of resistance”
According to Frampton, critical regionalism should adopt modern architecture critically for its universal progressive qualities but at the same time should value responses particular to the context. Emphasis should be on topography, climate, light, tectonic form rather than scenography and the tactile sense rather than the visual.
According to Tzonis and Lefaivre, critical regionalism need not directly draw from the context, rather elements can be stripped of their context and used in strange rather than familiar ways.
Critical regionalism is different from Regionalism which tries to achieve a one-to-one correspondence with vernacular architecture in a conscious way without consciously partaking in the universal.
It is considered a particular form of post-modern response in developing countries, not to be confused with postmodernism as architectural style.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect. The architect responsible for the dictum "Less Is More," He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname.
The goal of this research is to come to a greater understanding of Brragan's works , and what makes his architecture unique . In addition to focusing on one project – Brragan studio house - and the philosophical foundations for its design.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, (1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture. Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture. After Nazism's rise to power, with its strong opposition to modernism (leading to the closing of the Bauhaus itself), Mies emigrated to the United States. He accepted the position to head the architecture school at the Armour Institute of Technology (later the Illinois Institute of Technology), in Chicago
He worked in his father's stone carving shop and at several local design firms before he moved to Berlin, where he joined the office of interior designer Bruno Paul. He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and to progressive German culture. He worked alongside Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, who was later also involved in the development of the Bauhaus. Mies served as construction manager of the Embassy of the German Empire in Saint Petersburg under Behrens.
Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding "van der" and his mother's maiden name "Rohe" (the word mies means "lousy" in German and using the Dutch "van der", because the German form "von" was a nobiliary particle legally restricted to those of genuine aristocratic lineage. He began his independent professional career designing upper-class homes.
sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created his own twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces, as also conducted by other modernist architects in the 1920s and 1930s such as Richard Neutra. Mies strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of unobstructed free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. He sought an objective approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, but was always concerned with expressing the spirit of the modern era. He is often associated with his fondness for the aphorisms, "less is more" and "God is in the details".
It is a development in POST-MODERNISM that started in late 1980s.
It views architecture in bits and pieces.
It has no visual logic.
Buildings may appear to be made of abstract forms.
The idea was to develop buildings which show how differently from traditional architectural conventions buildings can be built without loosing their utility and still complying with the fundamental laws of physics.
The ideas were borrowed from the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida.
Architects involved –
Zaha Hadid
Bernhard Tschumi
Rem Koolhaas
The term ‘Critical Regionalism’ was first coined by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre and later more famously and pretentiously by Kenneth Frampton in “Towards a Critical Regionalism : Six points of an architecture of resistance”
According to Frampton, critical regionalism should adopt modern architecture critically for its universal progressive qualities but at the same time should value responses particular to the context. Emphasis should be on topography, climate, light, tectonic form rather than scenography and the tactile sense rather than the visual.
According to Tzonis and Lefaivre, critical regionalism need not directly draw from the context, rather elements can be stripped of their context and used in strange rather than familiar ways.
Critical regionalism is different from Regionalism which tries to achieve a one-to-one correspondence with vernacular architecture in a conscious way without consciously partaking in the universal.
It is considered a particular form of post-modern response in developing countries, not to be confused with postmodernism as architectural style.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect. The architect responsible for the dictum "Less Is More," He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname.
The goal of this research is to come to a greater understanding of Brragan's works , and what makes his architecture unique . In addition to focusing on one project – Brragan studio house - and the philosophical foundations for its design.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, (1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture. Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture. After Nazism's rise to power, with its strong opposition to modernism (leading to the closing of the Bauhaus itself), Mies emigrated to the United States. He accepted the position to head the architecture school at the Armour Institute of Technology (later the Illinois Institute of Technology), in Chicago
He worked in his father's stone carving shop and at several local design firms before he moved to Berlin, where he joined the office of interior designer Bruno Paul. He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and to progressive German culture. He worked alongside Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, who was later also involved in the development of the Bauhaus. Mies served as construction manager of the Embassy of the German Empire in Saint Petersburg under Behrens.
Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding "van der" and his mother's maiden name "Rohe" (the word mies means "lousy" in German and using the Dutch "van der", because the German form "von" was a nobiliary particle legally restricted to those of genuine aristocratic lineage. He began his independent professional career designing upper-class homes.
sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created his own twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces, as also conducted by other modernist architects in the 1920s and 1930s such as Richard Neutra. Mies strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of unobstructed free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. He sought an objective approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, but was always concerned with expressing the spirit of the modern era. He is often associated with his fondness for the aphorisms, "less is more" and "God is in the details".
Fra Razionalismo e Romanità: 2.contesto architettonicoPortante Andrea
Seconda parte della presentazione "Fra Razionalismo e Romanità: Architettura Italiana fra le due guerre", tenuta a Roma il 14 Febbraio 2015 nell'ambito delle attività del Club del Territorio del Touring Club.
Roma dopo il 1870: Urbanistica e Architettura - Parte 4/4Portante Andrea
Una carrellata che ripercorre l’evoluzione urbanistica di Roma dalla breccia di Porta Pia fino quasi ai nostri giorni.
Si parte con un “prequel”, i piani degli anni napoleonici, che contengono un po’ i semi di tutti gli sviluppi futuri. Esamineremo l’espansione della città attraverso i diversi Piani Regolatori che si sono succeduti (1873, 1883, 1909, 1931, 1942), puntualmente ignorati o elusi dagli interessi delle società immobiliari, le grandi “occasioni perse” per la città.
All’evoluzione urbanistica accompagneremo l’evoluzione del quadro architettonico, con il succedersi e sovrapporsi di stili dal neo barocco all’umbertino, dal “barocchetto romano” al liberty e al razionalismo, il tutto in una presentazione dal ritmo serrato con uso predominante di foto e video.
Una lezione sull'architettura di fine '900 a partire dalla Biennale del 1980, tornando indietro ai principi del movimento moderno, ragionando sul nodo anni 60-70...
Ecologia e urbanistica, sistemi per governare sistemi complessi socio-ecologi...Luca Marescotti
Aprire nuove prospettive significa un doppio salto: il primo per rimodulare discipline, competenze e formazione e il secondo per integrare i settori operativi della pubblica amministrazione.
Aprire nuove prospettive per l'urbanistica, significa usare proprio gli standard urbanistici per mantenere l'ambiente in una situazione favorevole -localmente e globalmente- per le società umane.
Il primo passo consiste nel dovere prima di tutto cambiare noi stessi, il nostro modo di governare e amministrare il territorio, di usare la pianificazione nelle città, con le città, per le città, che altro non sono che le loro genti, e i loro luoghi dove si giocano comportamenti, strategie finanziarie, acquisizioni di risorse. Questo vuol dire saper leggere le differenze sul significato delle parole, sul modo, per esempio, di usare il termine resilienza non tanto in diversi contesti scientifici, quanto nello stesso contesto ma con significati affatto diversi (Vale 2005), (Randall 2011), (Spirn 2012).
Allora aprire nuove prospettive è prendere coscienza sulla realtà territoriale e sull'esistenza di interrelazioni assai più complesse come è rappresentato nelle regioni urbane, che sarebbero del tutto invisibili se viste arroccati nell'interno dei confini di ciascun singolo comune (Forman 2008).
Roma dopo il 1870: Urbanistica e Architettura - Parte 3/4Portante Andrea
Una carrellata che ripercorre l’evoluzione urbanistica di Roma dalla breccia di Porta Pia fino quasi ai nostri giorni.
Si parte con un “prequel”, i piani degli anni napoleonici, che contengono un po’ i semi di tutti gli sviluppi futuri. Esamineremo l’espansione della città attraverso i diversi Piani Regolatori che si sono succeduti (1873, 1883, 1909, 1931, 1942), puntualmente ignorati o elusi dagli interessi delle società immobiliari, le grandi “occasioni perse” per la città.
All’evoluzione urbanistica accompagneremo l’evoluzione del quadro architettonico, con il succedersi e sovrapporsi di stili dal neo barocco all’umbertino, dal “barocchetto romano” al liberty e al razionalismo, il tutto in una presentazione dal ritmo serrato con uso predominante di foto e video.
1. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(Aachen, 27 marzo 1886 – Chicago, 17 agosto 1969)
2. Concorso per un Grattacielo
sulla Friedrichstrasse (1921)
PROGETTI PER LE ESPOSIZIONI DEL
NOVEMBERGRUPPE, MAI REALIZZATI
(1919-1923)
Grattacielo in vetro (1922)
Progetti per Grattacieli in vetro