Monday 27 May 2013

MASHUP OF 3 NEWS ARTICLES

An underlying effort at achieving the new, original, and visionary.The main content is that the technological kind of construction, mostly with steel and glass, is expressed in a formal independent way to gain own aesthetic qualities out of it. Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site, that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition. Distortion of form for an emotional effect. They included the prominent display of the building's technical and functional components, and an orderly arrangement and use of pre-fabricated elements. The style was characterised by an early-modernist adoption of novel materials, formal innovation, and very unusual massing, sometimes inspired by natural biomorphic forms. The idea of organic architecture refers not only to the buildings' literal relationship to the natural surroundings, but how the buildings' design is carefully thought about as if it were a unified organism. Subordination of realism to symbolic or stylistic expression of inner experience. Everything relates to one another, reflecting the symbiotic ordering systems of nature. High-tech architecture was, in some ways, a response to growing disillusionment with modern architecture. Utilises creative potential of artisan craftsmanshipTendency more towards the gothic than the classical. High-tech architecture created a new aesthetic in contrast with standard modern architecture. Conception of architecture as a work of art. This highlights one of the aims of high-tech architecture, to show the technical elements of the building by externalizing them."Using Nature as our basis for design, a building or design must grow, as Nature grows, from the inside out. Often hybrid solutions, irreducible to a single concept. Nature grows from the idea of a seed and reaches out to its surroundings. A building thus, is akin to an organism and mirrors the beauty and complexity of Nature." Themes of natural romantic phenomena, such as caves, mountains, lightning, crystal and rock formations. Thus, the technical aspects create the building's aesthetic. 


Blue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-tech_architecture
Red: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_architecture
Green: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionist_architecture

Combined theory summary: Expressive and imaginative architecture that emphasises structural and material elements while remaining sympathetic and well integrated within its environment and cohesive in itself.

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