Modernism:
Le Corbusier points
Modernism
is the period that totally rejected the past, it uses no ornaments to
blend class.
Uses
a geometrical form and things and machine cut structure. They tried
to use structure as ornament.
Throughout
1920s, Le
Corbusier
introduced his manifesto on five points towards a new architecture
which leads him to developed several architecture based on his five
points and perfected his points.
Le
Corbusier first point is ‘free
façade’ which means that the wall of the architecture is not a
load barring walls and does not support any weight of the building so
architect can do anything they want with the facade from using glass
panel to take out certain part and create an open space.
The
second point is that whole structure must be lifted off the ground by
‘pilotes’ and because of this allows the structure to have ‘open
floor plan’, which is his third point, where space can be divided
in every manner without the concern of supporting walls. The fourth
point one is the ‘horizontal windows’ where strip of windows
continue horizontally along the facade giving a panoramic and clear
opened view of the surrounding. Fifth point is the ‘Roof Garden’
which means that the building has to have 'Flat Roof'. This theory
also goes into inspiring a lot of architecture in the generations
after like Tadao Ando
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