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CHAPTER: MODERNISM . POSTMODERNISM . HIGH-TECH , DECONSTRUCTIONISM , CRITICAL REGIONALISM
 
A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE - HIGH-TECH
 
 
 
 
 

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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).


1851
Crystal Palace
Joseph Paxton
Londyn

1895
Rotunda
i dach membranowy
Władimir Żukow
Niżnyj Nowogrod

<< 1896
Hyperboloid
Władimir Żukow
Niżnyj Nowogrod

1910
Latarnia morska Adziogol
Władimir Żukow
Cherson, Ukraina

1899
Wieża wystawy Œwiatowej
Gustave Eiffel
Paryż

1968
Irvine Company headquarter
William Pereira
Newport Beach, California
1969
John Hancock Center
Fazlur Khan
Chicago
1971
World Trade Center
Minoru Yamasaki
New York
1972
Stadion Olimpijski
Frei Otto
Monachium
1973
Marquette Plaza
Gunnar Birkerts
Minneapolis
1976
One US Bank Plaza
Thompson/Ventulett/Stainback
St. Louis
1977
Centre Georges Pompidou
Renzo Piano/Richard Rogers
Paryż
1983
BNZ Centre
Stephenson/Turner
Wellington
1985
HSBC headquarter
Norman Foster
Hong Kong
1986
Lloyd's Building
Richard Rogers
Londyn
1989
Bank of China Tower
I.M. Pei
Hong Kong

1992
Žižkov Television Tower
Praga

1992

Hotel Arts
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Barcelona

1999
Lord's Media Centre
Londyn
1999
Millennium Dome
Richard Rogers
Londyn
2001
Milwaukee Art Museum
Santiago Calatrava
2001
National Centre for the Performing Arts
Paul Andreu
Pekin
2002
Allianz Arena
Herzog & de Meuron
Monachium

2002
City Hall
Norman Foster
Londyn

2003
30 St. Mary Axe /Gherkin/
Norman Foster
Londyn
2004
Sage Gateshead
Foster and Partners
Newcastle
2004
Hearst Tower
Norman Foster
New York
2004
Millau Viaduct
Michel Virlogeux/Norman Foster
Millau
2005
Torre Agbar
Jean Nouvel
Barcelona
2007
Beetham Tower
Ian Simpson Architects
Manchester
2008
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
Tange Associates
Tokyo

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