Modern - New
Academic terms
1860 - 1960 - Modern Period
Pre-modern - Traditional
Post-modern - 1960's
Turning point
The three M's:
Modernisation
Modernity
Modernism
Modernisation: Technology, industrialisation
Modernity: Modern society
Modernism: Critical theory as it appears in the arts
Paris - Re-built to accomodate growing desire of commercialism.
Capitalism
Commercialisation
Commodification
French revolution - Expanding democracy
Industrial revolution - Modernisation
Truth to materials - Everything had to be true to what it was made from. Bare brick walls, wooden floors, etc.
Architecture was gothic and classicism in the 1st half of the 18th century.
1850 - Red house Gothic
Philip Webb modernist was true to his materials.
Crystal palace 1861
Year of the great exhibition
It was assembled like a greenhouse so it could be taken apart and built somewhere else. The displays were all open plan much like the department stores of the time and you could see the materials that the building had been made from.
'Man with movie camera'
Exploring what a camera can do. WW1 utopianism - you can build the perfect world.
Russian photography/design
- self portrait el Maginiski
Williams Morris kicked started the arts & crafts movement. He believed that hand made designs looked better than machine.
He decided that if you made machine made things look like they had been made by machine rather than trying to look had made, they can become more upmarket.
Barcelona chair.
The perfect example of a 20th century design chair. It is a classic. Made in the 1920s but looks like it is from 1960s.
Bauhaus. He was an early 20's expressionist.
Using the space as a grid like structure in architecture.
Geometric shapes
Post modern architecture is inspired by regional culture where as modern architecture is inspired universally.
Universalisation adverts - colour palette kept to a minimum to become universal. Colour mean different things in different cultures so to as not offend anyone the colour is taken out. This however was impossible to achieve as white is still a colour.
Architecture was gothic and classicism in the 1st half of the 18th century.
1850 - Red house Gothic
Philip Webb modernist was true to his materials.
Crystal palace 1861
Year of the great exhibition
It was assembled like a greenhouse so it could be taken apart and built somewhere else. The displays were all open plan much like the department stores of the time and you could see the materials that the building had been made from.
Exploring what a camera can do. WW1 utopianism - you can build the perfect world.
Russian photography/design
- self portrait el Maginiski
Williams Morris kicked started the arts & crafts movement. He believed that hand made designs looked better than machine.
He decided that if you made machine made things look like they had been made by machine rather than trying to look had made, they can become more upmarket.
Barcelona chair.
The perfect example of a 20th century design chair. It is a classic. Made in the 1920s but looks like it is from 1960s.
Bauhaus. He was an early 20's expressionist.
Using the space as a grid like structure in architecture.
Geometric shapes
Post modern architecture is inspired by regional culture where as modern architecture is inspired universally.
Universalisation adverts - colour palette kept to a minimum to become universal. Colour mean different things in different cultures so to as not offend anyone the colour is taken out. This however was impossible to achieve as white is still a colour.
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