PART ONE : INTRODUCTION
an architect - explores ways of creating a vocabulary of forms.
as an architectural student i have to understand, that unlike me, few people think about architecture. yet most importantly people feel it- now that is were i have to focus, creating feelings.
INFLUENTIAL ARCHITECTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Le Corbusier - most influential architect in promoting ways of thinking and working with form
pioneered the development of a new vocabulary of form.
Louis Khan - brought order to form with classical assumptions
shifted focus to the idea of the programme as a major ordering idea.
Aldo van Eyck - challenged formal pre-occuptions in favour of an architecture that was " place" related and
contextual.
able to work with the idea of teh social programme in a significant way and reflected the
concern of his associates
Christopher Alexander - challenged formal pre-occuptions in favour of an archtecture that was
" place" related and contextual.
establish rationale for insisting that it was necessart for buildings to reflect
social agenda's.
Robert Venturi - recommended an architecture based on popoular culture as a point of reference.
challenge the assumptions of the modernist;s old guard.
characteristics of modern buildings that distinguish from previous periods:
1. reflects a different attitude to space ( architecture is space )
2. the idea of a relarionship between form and function.
3. movement as an ordering idea
4. the social agenda
5. attitudes to technology from craftsmanship to industrialisation
6. historical precedent no longer served basic development of form for some time
