Modernist Architecture

[JonnySpeed]

i've not talked about this before and i don't know if this floats anybody elses boat - I love modernist architecture from the revolution into the 1970s... it was one of the reasons I went to Russia and Lithuania last year to check out some of the buildings before they disappear... i'm going to Slovakia in the spring to have a look at some more. there is more hope of a change in attitude towards these buildings in the ex-soviet states which is very good news

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/another-russian-revolution-the-oligarch-with-a-sense-of-history-786169.html

these books are particularly good if you're interested

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Vanguard-Modernist-Architecture-1922-1932/dp/1580931855
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/610hh5h0VOL._SS500_.jpg



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eastmodern-Architecture-Design-1960s-Slovakia/dp/3211715312
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B2xByE3QL._SS500_.jpg

i'm off to take some pictures round Limehouse next week - lots of funky gems around there...

anybody else into this stuff? any great buildings that you love?

[Orang Utan]

Fuck off

[skosh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_architecture

what's the difference between modern and modernist? wiki's shite sometimes

[JonnySpeed]

they are the same modern/modernist/modernism = but they aren't what we call contemporary (recent, post-modern or even retro-modern) - so when people say i hate modern architecture they normally mean contemporary (shitey 'urban' flats or skyscrapers that all look the same with zero imagination) rather than say something Functionalist like Alvar Aalto or Rationalist like the Bauhaus or say some thing more Industrial like Jean Prouve = although they could mean that too.

thanks H, but i'm guessing this topic is dry to most people here :)

[emef]

Fuck off

tad harsh

you got summat against buildings then or what?

[Orang Utan]

tad harsh

you got summat against buildings then or what?

Tad Harsh - sounds like a newsreader

I was joking and pissed. I didn't really mean it

[emef]

hehe we've all been there

[JonnySpeed]

this is one of my favorite from Lithuania last November
http://photos-274.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v149/213/108/520156274/n520156274_430417_5277.jpg

[skosh]

they are the same modern/modernist/modernism = but they aren't what we call contemporary (recent, post-modern or even retro-modern) - so when people say i hate modern architecture they normally mean contemporary (shitey 'urban' flats or skyscrapers that all look the same with zero imagination) rather than say something Functionalist like Alvar Aalto or Rationalist like the Bauhaus or say some thing more Industrial like Jean Prouve = although they could mean that too.

thanks H, but i'm guessing this topic is dry to most people here :)


well i am actually interested in architecture, but not au fait with the terms used like modern doesnt actually mean modern eh, if ye get my drift

[JonnySpeed]

this book is the best confidence builder and top-level explanation I've read :)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/isms-Understanding-Architecture-Jeremy-Melvin/dp/0713674741/

this one is worth borrowing from the library too

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Architecture-Norman-Foster/dp/0751348813/

my tip is to pick one style you like - say art deco and try to find out alot of about it then just check out other things as you find them... suppose kind of like music - don't try to work it all out

:)

[Paddy]

I dig it. Proper Poirot vibes.

[soulcheck]

this is one of my favorite from Lithuania last November
http://photos-274.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v149/213/108/520156274/n520156274_430417_5277.jpg

They build those like that cause the concrete blocks whent out wrong from factory and they couldn't afford new ones.

It was meant to have straight angles everywhere.

[Smartie]

The beautiful town of Cumbernauld

http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/jpgs/cumbernauld_centre_ramp57.jpg

http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/jpgs/cumbernauld_aw220506_58.jpg

[Dask]

Portacabin futurism.

[darrell]

Architects Gillespie Kidd and Coia "the kingz"

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/StPeters/05062003/pages/teachingblock.htm

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/StPeters/05062003/pages/teachingblock2.htm

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/StPeters/05062003/pages/staircase.htm

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/StPeters/index.htm

[JonnySpeed]

Fuck off

i'm so wanking to the quality output on channel 4 tonight.

[Paddy]

Watched summat about Richard Rogers last night

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/london/jpgs/london_building_aw050507_166.j pg

I love the Llyods building.

[FiST]

i caught that, seems like you have to wear proper fluro clothes if you wanna werk in his office tho.

[kams]

I took some photos of the lloyds building just before Christmas..
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8499/lloydsyb6.jpg
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9034/lloyds2pb7.jpg

[Paddy]

i caught that, seems like you have to wear proper fluro clothes if you wanna werk in his office tho.


Haha totally zany office vibes! I noticed that he seemed to have a different fluro watch every five minutes as well.

Nice pics Kams!

[love_tempo]

that's cool kams, looks like a video game with the odd lighting

[grobelaar]

I saw the Richard Rogers thing last night, that episodes of Grand Designs and a stint of level designing at work has got me all fired up over architecture.

I liked Rogers he came across has a genuinely likable chap - turning the practise into a charity and very keen to make sure that all the people working for him get their credits too.

When I was at college I wanted to be an architect, but fell out of love with academia so it wasn't to be.