International Style Of Architecture BY: Abshir Abdirizak 3 rd YEAR -05 sem Sharda University Greater Noida
International Style of Architecture.
CONTENTS What I s I nternational S tyle O f Architecture? Characteristics Of I nternational Style. Design Principles O f I nternational Style. Famous Architects And Famous Buildings. Decline Of International Style.
What Is Architectural Style is a major architectural style that was developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modern architecture . It’s a style in architecture that uses modern materials (such as steel, glass, and reinforced concrete), expresses structure directly, and eliminates nonstructural ornament
What Is Architectural Style The term International Style was first used in 1932 by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in their essay titled The International Style: Architecture Since 1922, which served as a catalog for an architectural exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art .
Characteristics Of International Style B uildings Are Rectilinear Forms LA House by: Studio Guilherme Torres.
Characteristics Of International Style The use of lightweigh Joseph M Spiteri ( Manikata Church)
Characteristics Of International Style Exposing It’s Structure: Concrete, Glass, Steel The use of horizontal beam like structures, Firm plane surfaces with light tones, use of concrete and glass framed windows.
Characteristics Of International Style Venice Beach, CA Rejection of all ornament and color
Characteristics Of International Style Open Interior Spaces Crown Hall, Chicago .
Design Principles Of International Style Symmetric Asymmetric
Design Principles Of International Style Rhythm
Design Principles Of International Style Repetition Guggenheim of Frank Lloyd Wright. With the repetitive natural smooth curves that are illustration a sense of motion, with the use of light tones and flat roofing makes this a similar design or at least a resemblance in both The International style and the Guggenheim itself.
Famous Architects And Their Buildings Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School , who, along with Alvar Aalto , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright , is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture . Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style
Walter Gropius Bauhaus Building By Walter Gropius. Dessau, Germany.
Famous Architects And Their Buildings J.J.P.Oud Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, commonly called J. J. P. Oud ( 9 February 1890 – 5 April 1963 ) was a Dutch architect
Famous Architects And Their Buildings Le Corbuseir Charles- Édouard Jeanneret ( 6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( French), was a Swiss-French architect, designer , painter , urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
Le corbusier
Criticism Of International Style In 1930, Frank Lloyd Wright wrote: "Human houses should not be like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the Machine by trying to make dwelling-places too complementary to Machinery .“ By the 1970s, the international style was so dominant that innovativation was dead . Mies continued to design beautiful buildings, but was copied everywhere. As the saying went “You got off an airplane in 1970s, and you don’t know where you were”.