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3-rd Lecture-Modrenity

This document discusses modernity in architecture. It defines modernity as being confronted with change and disruption. Modernity was motivated by scientific discoveries, industrialization, social movements, and urban growth. Key features of modern architecture include the capitalist mode of power, anti-tradition approaches, establishing new rules, and emphasizing form. Modernity was achieved through transforming objects, changing patterns, visual shifts, and cultural borrowing or invention. The document then outlines three periods of modern architecture: the Modern Movement, Postmodern Movement, and Deconstruction Movement.

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3-rd Lecture-Modrenity

This document discusses modernity in architecture. It defines modernity as being confronted with change and disruption. Modernity was motivated by scientific discoveries, industrialization, social movements, and urban growth. Key features of modern architecture include the capitalist mode of power, anti-tradition approaches, establishing new rules, and emphasizing form. Modernity was achieved through transforming objects, changing patterns, visual shifts, and cultural borrowing or invention. The document then outlines three periods of modern architecture: the Modern Movement, Postmodern Movement, and Deconstruction Movement.

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‫بسم اهلل الرحمن الرحيم‬

MODERNITY IN ARCHITECTURE
3rd Lecture
A. Prof. Dr. Salahaddin Yasin Baper
Objectives

1- To clarify the concept of modernity in architecture

2- To explain the modernity motivations, achievement


strategies and features.

3- To illustrate the periods of modernity in architecture


What is Modernity ?

 To be modern is to be confronted with disruption


and change as everything. (Berman, 1994)

Modernity characterized as the historical challenge


of moving from a received order to a produced one.
(Marcel Gauche,2004)

The current, the new, and the transient are the main
altitudes that describe the concept of modernity .
(Heynen,1999).
Modernity Motivations

 Great discoveries in the


physical sciences.

 The industrialization of
production, which transforms
scientific knowledge into
technology.

 Mass social movements of


people.

 Huge demographic upheavals


and rapid urban growth.
Modernity Features

Modernity features in architectural point of view

Capitalist Mode of Form Establishing


Anti-Tradition
Power Phenomenon New Rules
Approach
Modernity Achievement Mechanisms
Transformation in architecture is a process which can be defined as the
generation of a target model from a source model .

Reshaping an object
Changing inner pattern
Transformations
Visual Shifts
Adaptation of cultural structure
Variation
Cultural borrowing
Change
Invention
Temptation
Periods of Modernity in Architecture
 Architecture passed through different epoch's .Each period has its
distinctive features due to its philosophical background and historical
evolutions. To discover the influence of modernity in each period, the
study will illustrate the seeds of modernity in following phases.
Modern Movement
Postmodern Movement
Deconstruction Movement

Way of
Thinking

Architectura
l Form Concepts

Materials
Periods of Modernity in Architecture

Modern Movement : A revolution that destroyed the existing classical


architecture and replaced it with a new order.

 “Form Follows Function"


 Ornament is a Crime
 Less is More
Periods of Modernity in Architecture

 Postmodern Movement :It is a hybrid language that mix between


technological aspects of modernity and classical forms of the history.

History is a source of culture


Less is Bore
Form Follow Fiasco
Periods of Modernity in Architecture
 Deconstructivism: Modernity in deconstruction can be clarified within
the concept of displacement that aims to break down or rearrange the
characterized view of a building:-
 Revealing its inside formerly invisible aspects of its outside
 Rebuilding different modifications of space
 Forcing different means of access
 Changing the principles of what it contains.

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