The Modernist Theory
The Modernist theory of architecture (1919-1968), was based on the shift from the feudal societies of the past to the urban society. The French Revolution was a rising of the common people to cast down the aristocracy and to overthrow government. The Industrial Revolution saw the addition of the middle class, the bourgeois rejected and creativity becoming a religion as well as universities, rationale science and a break from the church; a feeling that the present is discontinuous from the past came to the forefront. The Bauhaus proclaimed, “Let us create a new guild of craftsman, without the class snobbery that tries to erect a haughty barrier between artists and craftsman”. This cultural impact on the Making of Architecture was based on the self-referential theo
ry that became a guiding principal of the Modern age in Architecture. Being self-referential was guided by the notion that elements referenced themselves and not history. By architecture becoming self-referential, gave intent to the ‘Making’ of architecture as well as giving it a direction. “The wall is about the Wall”, the “wall” was no longer a cohesive part of the building, and the “wall” became a device. The spatial experience then becomes more important because the wall is not needed, but the “wall” gives direction and defines the space. Modern architecture depended on movement, where understanding is based on a non-static, observer based movement. Panoramic operations such as this were important to many Architects such as Le Corbusier.
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The Crutch of Human Resources
The idea that an answer to our problems will come with the continuing development of machine and technology is naive and puts our future in dire straights. We must foreshadow the future and try to prevent the crutch of waiting for something to happen before we deal with it. Consequently, we are already at that point with many of the things that we depend on to live our daily consumer driven lives. Countries like China have a limit on family size to try and stop the overgrowth of population. Our water supply has diminished and is becoming more polluted. Fossil fuels are being depleted while people complain of high gas prices as they fill up their 15 mile per gallon oversized SUV. The air we depend on is more and more polluted while politicians bicker over when outdated pollution regulations should be in place. There are improvised countries that are already feeling the effects of famine and a barren landscape. Landfills continue to grow while a majority of what is contained in them could have been recycled in one form or another. Wars wage on depleting resources while our own people are killed because of power and differences. These issues are real and sadly they are just a few of the issues that face the human race and our survival. At some point the majority must stand up and make a stand to break the vicious cycle that has been set before us.
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