Overview of Formalist Architecture
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FORMALIST
FORMALIST ARCHITECTURE
Formalism in architecture implies
that the work on the piece does not depend
of its relationship with the environment, but of the
the own texture of the artistic object.
It is equivalent to understanding form as principle in
himself, without it necessarily having to
to be related to the function.
FORMALIST ARCHITECTS
Philip Johnson
American architect
that defended the building
as a limited space whose
the ideal cover was the facade
curtain (of glass), for
to enclose within itself the
pure volume, rejecting
the ornamental additions.
the profession had no functional responsibility
His own house, the Glass House (1949) will be a product of that aesthetic.
He also built the Hodgson House (1951) in New Canaan and the House
Wiley (1953), in line with his International Style.
FORMALIST ARCHITECTS
Peter Eisenman
He is an American architect of Jewish origin internationally.
recognized for his provocative vision of architecture has
built an innumerable series of large-scale projects.
His projects include the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State.
University, the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, and
the Aronoff Center for Design and Art at the University of Cincinnati.
FORMALIST ARCHITECTS
Richard Meier
Consider
that the
architecture
ra is a
discipline
what is His/her works have
centered
find mainly in
in a museums, large
continue mansions, temples He is an architect
flow and offices, in which American
highlight the light of his awarded among
spaces and the use of others with the
white color, in Pritzker Prize and
where the spaces the gold medal
they harmonize with the of American
nature Institute of
surrounding. Architects.
FORMALIST ARCHITECTS
Frank Gehry
Its architecture is striking, made
frequently with materials
unfinished. In the same building incorporates
He is an architect. various simple geometric shapes, that
they create a visual current between them
Canadian
settled in It is a
United States, architect
winner of American
Pritzker Prize, if
awarded
recognized by
among others
the innovators and with the Prize
peculiar forms Pritzker and the
of the buildings Medal of
what designs. gold of
American
Institute of
Architects.
ARCHITECTURE
FUNCTIONALIST
FUNCTIONALIST ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
functionalist
arising from the
social demands
economic y
cultural himself
can identify
with modernism,
and with the need
to create beauty and
utility.
The concept is based on the use and adaptation
of material means for utilitarian purposes or
functional, as a measure of technical perfection
CHARACTERISTICS
The resistance of the building rests on the frames.
structural.
Realism was intended, which is why a
new construction material and more suitable, the
reinforced concrete, as it is solid and flexible, strong
and light.
They were using glass and metal facades to create
an interior and exterior transparency.
The rooftop ceilings were inaugurated, with drainage of
water inside the building, whose characteristic it
it gave a more urban sense to the skyscrapers.
Functionalist architects
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
German architect who
worked during the
first years of the
post-war in the design of
a clean architecture and
simple, of perfect
radical ordering.
It produces an extraordinary flexibility of space in terms of structure and poses
the relationships between architecture and technology.
FUNCTIONALIST ARCHITECTS
Charles Édouard Jeanneret was undoubtedly the most prominent figure LE CORBUSIER
important of the modern movement.
Define the five rules that would guide their activity as
architect and that would then be applied to excess
for the evolutionary process that this movement followed.
His works can be
group based on
two principles:
conceptual e
instrumentals
Functionalist Architects
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect who created a new concept
regarding the interior spaces of the buildings. Rejected
the existing criterion until then of the spaces
interiors such as closed and isolated rooms of the
others.
Designed spaces in
the what each
room or hall
opens the others, with
what one achieves
great transparency
visual, a profusion
of light and a
feeling of amplitude
and opening.
FUNCTIONALIST ARCHITECTS
Walter Gropius
German architect, founder of the famous design school
from the Bauhaus, where students were taught to use
modern and innovative materials to create buildings, furniture and
original and functional objects
Healsoadvocated
in favor of the
rationalization
from the industry of
the construction,
for allow
to build of
He devoted himself intensively to large housing blocks, in faster way
those who saw the solution to urban and social problems. and economic.