The Theory Of Modernism In Design And Architecture
What is the difference between modern, modernity and modernism? (4-5 lines, do external research) Modern means linked to the current, more recent than the previous. Time is determinative factor for considering something modern. As time changes, the modern understanding also changes. Modernity is a representation of modern term on ideologies, innovations, movements. It can be characterized in different branches. For example, with Renaissance the modernity term was used in visual art, music, poetry and philosophy and with enlightment, modernity lost it’s connection with antiquity (Hermansen & Hvattum 2004). Modernism is he system of ideas, is a way of thinking, understanding of new, a movement of thought, to keep step with current and actual.
What is the essence of Otto Wagner’s “credo” related to modernism? How does he explain it (5-6 lines of answer) Otto Wagner sees the modernism as a reflection of current time. To do similar with the old styles, doesn’t meet the present. He believes the work is the reflection of it’s time. Needs change as time changes. His ‘Art know only one master-the need’ words are explaining that (Wagner 1894 in Contandriopoulos, Mallgrave 2008: 89). To find solutions for the modern man’s needs and modern time conditions should be considered. If architects create about the needs of the time then they start to represent the time of them.
What is Luis Sullivan’s contribution to the phrase “form ever follows function”? Elaborate with his views from the reading (4-5 lines) Luis Sullivian associates his expression ‘form ever follows function’ to law of nature. Things are take forms because functions allow them to. His ‘Where function does not change, form does not change’ words are clarifying his design propensities; begins with determining the needs of users and space, and ends with designing the space considering that needs. Form ever follows funtion.
Who designed the Dymaxion House? What is the philosophy behind this design? (4-5 lines) Buckminster Fuller is the designer of Dymmaxion House. The idea is coming from Lightful House concept, means, ‘ lightweight prefabricated houses suspended from a central mast’ (Contandiopoulos & Mallgrave 2008:157). Dymaxion houses are designed by considering the economical and environmental issues so it contains different technologies about solar, wind and waste-recycling. Fuller designed the components of it’s infrastructure. Using technological materials, solving the design problems with new technologic ideas and built with lightweight prefabricated materials show that Dymaxion House designed with modern architecture ideas.
What does Le Corbusier mean with “a house is a machine to live in”? (4-5 lines)
With the increasing technology people started to satisfy their needs easily, quickly with less efford. So like engineering, architecture needs to keep up with developing technology and fulfil the necessary easily, quickly, directly. A house should be designed as a machine, that has different parts for different needs, easy to built, modern materials and construction systems have used. And most importantly, this machine has to adopt the contitions of the time.
