Lecture6 abstraction of forms and line

EXPRESSIONIST ARCHITECTURE
• Parallel with the expressionist visual and
performing arts
• Characterised by an early-modernist adoption of
novel materials, formal innovation, and very
unusual massing
• Inspired by natural biomorphic forms
• Inspired by the new technical possibilities offered
by the mass production of brick, steel and
especially glass
• Economic conditions severely limited the
number of built commissions
• Many of the expressionist works remaining
as projects on paper
• BrunoTaut'sAlpineArchitecture
• Hermann Finsterlin's Formspiels
• Expressionist architecture was individualistic
and in many ways avoided aesthetic philosophy
Bruno Taut envisioned,
a century ago, the
reconstruction of the
Alps into a crystalline
architecture that
would bring the human
world into closer
harmony with the
forces and processes
of nature.
Wandering from
Organ to Organ with
Hermann Finsterlin

NOTION
• Distortion of form for an emotional effect.
• Subordination of realism to symbolic or stylistic
expression of inner experience.
• An effort at achieving the new, original, and
visionary.
• Abundance of works on paper, and models,
with discovery and representations of concepts
more important than pragmatic finished
products.
• Themes of natural romantic phenomena, such as
caves, mountains, lightning, crystal and rock
formations.
• Uses creative potential of artisan craftsmanship.
• Come forth from within the artist, rather than
from a depiction of the external visual world
• Standard for assessing the quality of a work of
art became the character of the artist's feelings
rather than an analysis of the composition.

NOTION
Primary Stylistic Features
• Sculptural forms.
• Non-traditional structural elements.
• Distortion of form to evoke emotion
• Organic design.
• Experimental materials.
• Unconventional roof designs.
Secondary Stylistic Features
• Irregularly shaped windows.
• Same materials used inside and out.
• Roofs as continuation of walls.
• Use of topography as design element.
• Use of cantilever.
• Laminated wood.
• Asymmetrical.

FUTURIST ARCHITECTURE
• Characterized by strong chromaticism, long
dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion,
urgency and lyricism
• A cult of the machine age and even a
glorification of war and violence were among the
themes of the futurists
• The futurists were interested in anything new
and anything having to do with technology.
• Obsession with new things
• Interested in a complete disposal of the past.
• Interest in hustle and bustle of city life.
• New materials to be used
• Recommend that architecture be constructed of
degradable materials ensuring that nothing
would endure past a single generation.
• Effectively makes each generation responsible
for the construction of their own towns and
cities.

FUTURIST ARCHITECTURE
• Reinforced concrete, iron, glass,cardboard,
textile fiber
• Oblique lines and elliptic lines are dynamic,
which by their very nature have an expressive
power a thousand times higher than the
horizontal and perpendicular.
• As the ancients drew inspiration for his art, the
elements of nature, futurist architecture must
find that inspiration in the elements of brand
new mechanical world was created.
• Architecture must understand the effort to
harmonize with freedom and great audacity
environment and man, that is, make the world
of things in a direct projection of the spirit
world.

ANTONIO SANT'ELIA FUTURIST ARCHITECTURE

GRADUATE CENTER (CLASSROOM BUILDING),ORAL ROBERTS
UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE CENTER , ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY

THEME BUILDING, LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

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