As HIGH-TECH may be classified metabolistic capsule, hectares of land covering with ecological foil stretched on geodesic structures, the works of Bauckminster Fuller, Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, the Eiffel Tower and stellar hyperboloid designed in Russia by Vladimir Zhukov at a time, when in Paris the Metropolitan stations (sprinkling of cast iron ornaments) were built.
Buildings whose hallmark is innovative, even "high-performance" design has been developed since the mid-nineteenth century to our times. Today, almost all of the architecture is "high-tech" and deconstructionism is completely "super-high-tech". Although it is easy to distinguish between the buildings using the new technologies and the buildings designed in high-tech style.

What distinguishes a high-tech modernism is the approach to space.

Even the most clumsy, modernist building is a way of organizing space. It can be found in it, traces of elementarism (van Doesburg, Rietveld), or of neoplasticism (Mondrian, Le Corbusier). For modernists, the technology was used to fulfill the vision of an architect. The construction was part of a dividing or combining spaces.
This trend of modernism exhausted its creative possibilities with the time of their late projects, Mies van der Rohe.

For "high-tech" architects space has no meaning - for them important is the building as an object.

The construction can be considered as a means to an end, either as an end in itself.
Paradoxically, none of the nineteenth century structures does not highlight the material or structure. Although the structure is visible, we remember the form of buildings.

High-tech exposes technology more than necessary, and treats it like an ornament.
In this sense, it belongs to the era of postmodernism, though not as embarrassing as postmodernism.

Structures shown below are commonly included in high-tech. It should look at them carefully and decide on their own, or indeed what we see is that, as we look at... (in doubtful cases back to the end of the homepage).