1、Modern ArchitectureModern architecture, not to be confused with contemporary architecture, is a term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament. While the style was conceived early in the 20th century and he
2、avily promoted by a few architects, architectural educators and exhibits, very few Modern buildings were built in the first half of the century. For three decades after the Second World War, however, it became the dominant architectural style for institutional and corporate building. 1. Origins Some
3、 historians see the evolution of Modern architecture as a social matter, closely tied to the project of Modernity and hence to the Enlightenment, a result of social and political revolutions. Others see Modern architecture as primarily driven by technological and engineering developments, and it is
4、true that the availability of new building materials such as iron, steel, concrete and glass drove the invention of new building techniques as part of the Industrial Revolution. In 1796, Shrewsbury mill owner Charles Bage first used his fireproof design, which relied on cast iron and brick with flag
5、 stone floors. Such construction greatly strengthened the structure of mills, which enabled them to accommodate much bigger machines. Due to poor knowledge of irons properties as a construction material, a number of early mills collapsed. It was not until the early 1830s that Eaton Hodgkinson introd
6、uced the section beam, leading to widespread use of iron construction, this kind of austere industrial architecture utterly transformed the landscape of northern Britain, leading to the description, Dark satanic mills of places like Manchester and parts of West Yorkshire. The Crystal Palace by Josep
7、h Paxton at the Great Exhibition of 1851 was an early example of iron and glass construction; possibly the best example is the development of the tall steel skyscraper in Chicago around 1890 by William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan. Early structures to employ concrete as the chief means of arch
8、itectural expression (rather than for purely utilitarian structure) include Frank Lloyd Wrights Unity Temple, built in 1906 near Chicago, and Rudolf Steiners Second Goetheanum, built from 1926 near Basel, Switzerland. Other historians regard Modernism as a matter of taste, a reaction against eclecti
9、cism and the lavish stylistic excesses of Victorian Era and Edwardian Art Nouveau. Whatever the cause, around 1900 a number of architects around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate traditional precedents (Gothic, for instance) with new technological possibilities. The
10、 work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, among many others, can be seen as a common struggle between old and new. 2. Modernism as Dominant Style By the 1920s the mos
11、t important figures in Modern architecture had established their reputations. The big three are commonly recognized as Le Corbusier in France, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius in Germany. Mies van der Rohe and Gropius were both directors of the Bauhaus, one of a number of European sch
12、ools and associations concerned with reconciling craft tradition and industrial technology. Frank Lloyd Wrights career parallels and influences the work of the European modernists, particularly via the Wasmuth Portfolio, but he refused to be categorized with them. Wright was a major influence on bot
13、h Gropius and van der Rohe, however, as well as on the whole of organic architecture. In 1932 came the important MOMA exhibition, the International Exhibition of Modern Architecture, curated by Philip Johnson. Johnson and collaborator Henry-Russell Hitchcock drew together many distinct threads and t
14、rends, identified them as stylistically similar and having a common purpose, and consolidated them into the International Style. This was an important turning point. With World War II the important figures of the Bauhaus fled to the United States, to Chicago, to the Harvard Graduate School of Design
15、, and to Black Mountain College. While Modern architectural design never became a dominant style in single-dwelling residential buildings, in institutional and commercial architecture Modernism became the pre-eminent, and in the schools (for leaders of the profession) the only acceptable, design sol
16、ution from about 1932 to about 1984. Architects who worked in the international style wanted to break with architectural tradition and design simple, unornamented buildings. The most commonly used materials are glass for the facade, steel for exterior support, and concrete for the floors and interio
17、r supports; floor plans were functional and logical. The style became most evident in the design of skyscrapers. Perhaps its most famous manifestations include the United Nations headquarters (Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Sir Howard Robertson), the Seagram Building (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), and L
18、ever House (Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill), all in New York. A prominent residential example is the Lovell House (Richard Neutra) in Los Angeles. Detractors of the international style claim that its stark, uncompromisingly rectangular geometry is dehumanising. Le Corbusier once described buildings a
19、s machines for living, but people are not machines and it was suggested that they do not want to live in machines. Even Philip Johnson admitted he was bored with the box. Since the early 1980s many architects have deliberately sought to move away from rectilinear designs, towards more eclectic style
20、s. During the middle of the century, some architects began experimenting in organic forms that they felt were more human and accessible. Mid-century modernism, or organic modernism, was very popular, due to its democratic and playful nature. Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen were two of the most prolifi
21、c architects and designers in this movement, which has influenced contemporary modernism. Although there is debate as to when and why the decline of the modern movement occurred, criticism of Modern architecture began in the 1960s on the grounds that it was universal, sterile, elitist and lacked mea
22、ning. Its approach had become ossified in a style that threatened to degenerate into a set of mannerisms. Siegfried Giedion in the 1961 introduction to his evolving text, Space, Time and Architecture (first written in 1941), could begin At the moment a certain confusion exists in contemporary archit
23、ecture, as in painting; a kind of pause, even a kind of exhaustion. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a 1961 symposium discussed the question Modern Architecture: Death or Metamorphosis? In New York, the coup dtat appeared to materialize in controversy around the Pan Am Building that loomed over Gr
24、and Central Station, taking advantage of the modernist real estate concept of air rights,1 In criticism by Ada Louise Huxtable and Douglas Haskell it was seen to sever the Park Avenue streetscape and tarnish the reputations of its consortium of architects: Walter Gropius, Pietro Belluschi and the bu
25、ilders Emery Roth & Sons. The rise of postmodernism was attributed to disenchantment with Modern architecture. By the 1980s, postmodern architecture appeared triumphant over modernism, including the temple of the Light of the World, a futuristic design for its time Guadalajara Jalisco La Luz del Mun
26、do Sede International; however, postmodern aesthetics lacked traction and by the mid-1990s, a neo-modern (or hypermodern) architecture had once again established international pre-eminence. As part of this revival, much of the criticism of the modernists has been revisited, refuted, and re-evaluated
27、; and a modernistic idiom once again dominates in institutional and commercial contemporary practice, but must now compete with the revival of traditional architectural design in commercial and institutional architecture; residential design continues to be dominated by a traditional aesthetic.现代建筑现代
28、建筑，不被混淆与“当代建筑”，是一个词给了一些建筑风格有类似的特点，主要的简化形式是消除装饰等。虽然风格的设想早在20世纪，并大量造就了一些建筑师、建筑教育家和展品，但很少有现代的建筑物建于20世纪上半叶。第二次大战后的三十年，最终却成为主导建筑风格的机构和公司建设。1. 起源一些历史学家认为进化的现代建筑作为一个社会问题，从息息相关的工程中的现代性，从而影响了启蒙运动，导致社会和政治革命。另一些人认为现代建筑主要是靠技术和工程学的发展，那就是获得新的建筑材料，如钢铁、混凝土和玻璃。发明新的建筑技术，它是作为工业革命的一部分。1796年，shrewsbury查尔斯bage首先用他的“火”的设计
29、，后者则依靠铸铁及砖与石材地板。这些建设大大加强了结构，使它们能够容纳更大的机器。由于作为建筑材料特性知识缺乏，一些早期建筑失败。直到1830年初，伊顿Hodgkinson预计推出了型钢梁，导致广泛使用钢架建设，工业结构完全改变了这种窘迫的面貌，英国北部领导的描述，“黑暗魔鬼作坊”的地方如曼彻斯特和西约克郡。水晶宫由约瑟夫paxton的重大展览，1851年，是一个早期的例子，钢铁及玻璃施工可能是一个最好的例子，就是1890年由William乐男爵延长和路易沙利文在芝加哥附近发展的高层钢结构摩天楼。早期结构采用混凝土作为行政手段的建筑表达(而非纯粹功利结构)，包括建于1906年在芝加哥附近，劳埃
30、德赖特的统一宫，建于1926年瑞士巴塞尔附近的鲁道夫斯坦纳的第二哥特堂。其他历史学家对于现代主义作为一种风格，反弹折衷主义与奢侈的文体弄权维多利亚时代和爱德华艺术。但无论原因为何，约有1900多位建筑师，在世界各地开始制定新的建筑方法，将传统的先例(比如哥特式)与新的技术相结合的可能性。路易沙利文和赖特在芝加哥工作，维克多奥尔塔在布鲁塞尔，安东尼高迪在巴塞罗那、奥托瓦格纳和查尔斯景mackintosh格拉斯哥在维也纳，其中之一可以看作是一个新与旧的共同斗争。2. 现代主义风格由1920年代的最重要人物，在现代建筑里确立了自己的名声。三个是公认的柯布西耶在法国，密斯范德尔德罗和瓦尔特格罗皮乌斯在
31、德国。密斯范德尔德罗和格罗皮乌斯为董事的包豪斯，其中欧洲有不少学校和有关团体学习调和工艺和传统工业技术。赖特的建筑生涯中，也影响了欧洲建筑的现代艺术，特别是通过瓦斯穆特组合。但他拒绝被归类与他们。赖特与格罗皮乌斯和Van der德罗对整个有机体系有重大的影响。在1932年来到的重要moma展览，是现代建筑艺术的国际展览，艺术家菲利普约翰逊。约翰逊和合作者亨利-罗素阁纠集许多鲜明的线索和趋势，内容相似，有一个共同的目的，巩固了他们融入国际化风格。这是一个重要的转折点。在二战的时间包豪斯的代表人物逃到美国，芝加哥，到哈佛大学设计黑山书院。当现代建筑设计从未成为主导风格单一的住宅楼，在成为现代卓越的
32、体制和商业建筑，是学校(专业领导)的唯一可接受的设计解决方案，从约1932年至约1984年。那些从事国际风格的建筑师想要打破传统建筑和简单的没有装饰的建筑物。最常用的材料是玻璃外墙，钢结构支持。具体的楼层和内部支撑，平面图中的功能和逻辑，风格成为最明显的表现在设计摩天大楼。这或许是它最有名的表现，包括联合国总部(柯布西耶，奥斯卡niemeyer，霍华德罗伯逊)的帷幕大楼(密斯范德尔德罗)，而在纽约的杠杆府( skidmore ,奥因斯和美林公司)。一个突出的住宅例子是在洛杉矶的洛弗尔家(理查德中性)。国际化风格的反对者声称其赤裸裸的，毫不妥协他们的观点。柯布西耶曾经形容建筑物作为“机械生活”。
33、但人不是机器，因此，有人建议说：他们不希望生活在一个机器。连菲利普约翰逊承认是“无聊的盒子”。自八十年代初许多建筑师并没有故意试图摆脱直线设计，朝向更多的折衷主义风格。在21世纪中叶，一些建筑师开始尝试有机形式，使他们感到有更多的人力和方便。本世纪中叶，现代主义，或有机现代主义，是很受欢迎，因为它的民主性和活泼性。阿尔瓦阿尔托和eero saarinen是两个参加这项运动中最为活跃的建筑师和设计师，其中，影响当代现代主义。至于何时及为何衰落的现代运动发生，虽然还有争议，批判现代建筑在1960年代开始的理由是，它是普遍的，不育,，精英缺少的含义，其做法已经变得僵化，在“风格”，扬言要沦为一系列小
34、动作。齐格弗里德giedion在1961年介绍他的文字演变，空间，时间和建筑(首写于1941年) , 可以开始 ,在目前出现一定的混乱存在于现代建筑,如绘画; 一种稍顿, 即使是一种疲惫. 1961年在纽约大都会艺术博物馆,专题讨论题目是现代建筑:死亡或变态, 政变似乎无限争议左右泛美大厦弥漫大中央车站, 在批评阿达路易斯huxtable和道格拉斯了Haskell利用现代房地产概念的空权，其财团建筑师: 沃尔特格罗皮乌斯,诚贝卢斯基和建设者金刚砂陆士父子被视为断绝公园大道街景和抹黑的名誉.是因为执政者与现代建筑崛起后, 到了八十年代,后现代建筑的出现战胜现代,包括圣殿的光的世界, 一种复古的设计,其时间瓜达拉哈拉哈利斯科镧luz del Mundo主任的Sede国际; 然而, 后现代美学缺乏牵引,由90年代中期以来,一种新的现代(或hypermodern )架构再次确立国际地位. 作为这股风潮,批评中的不少现代已重新批驳,并重新评估; 但现在必须竞争,而恢复传统的建筑设计,商业体制构架; 住宅设计中仍然是占主导地位的传统审美，现代派成语再次主宰体制和现代商业惯例,
