332 research outputs found
Health at the core of Modern Movement Architecture
Investigation into healthcare facilities involves dealing with multiple spheres beyond the technological, physical and psychological. Nowadays, the growing emphasis on wellbeing goes beyond the seminal ideas that modern buildings were cleansing machines, or that modern architecture and urbanism were shaped by bacteria. Presenting some stimulating philosophically-orientated essays, this journal makes a link between the Modern Movement and what we have entitled the âCure and Careâ concept, connecting health and the environment, body and design. Considering healthcare buildings and their role in the welfare policy of societies, the discussion addresses future challenges, driven by developments in technology and medicine, envisaging a key role for healthcare facilities in ensuring a sustainable built environment
Building Physics and its Performance in Modern Movement Architecture
The science of Building Physics was developed in Germany from 1880â1940 but its performance in Modern Movement architecture is considered immature and in aspects problematic. Still, some international pioneers found theoretical and practical ways to catch the theme
The Home at the core of Modernity, an optimistic architecture
Devoted to the theme of single-family houses, given the key role they played in the ideal definition of the Modern Movement architecture, as a symbolic and functional affirmation of the utopian turning of dreams into reality, the aim of this issue is to consider the transformation of daily life, and to address the architectural challenges that arose from the joy contained in what we might call the âarchitecture of happiness.â As we continue to endure a pandemic that has now lasted for more than a year, docomomo wishes to declare that âtill the moment, the best vaccine to prevent contagion was invented by architects: the houseâ. Thus, in response to the question âHow should we live?â, it is intended to debate the house and the home agenda as an important topic at the core of Modern Movement architecture. Nowadays, the growing emphasis on wellbeing goes beyond the seminal ideas that modern houses were âmachines Ă habiterâ and is closer to an idealistic vision of a stimulating shell for humans, which is shaped by imagination, experimentation, efficiency, and knowledge
Review: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970
Book review of The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970 by Kenneth Frampton. Yale University Press, January 2022. 344 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-23889-1 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed March 2022 by Paul Glassman, Director of Scholarly and Cultural Resources, Yeshiva University, [email protected]
A hidden beauty. Sizaâs adequacy lesson at the secret and delicate MMH
For the design of the Manuel MagalhĂŁes House (1967-1970), Ălvaro Siza revisited the purist rationalist principles of Modern Movement architecture. This project represents a shift in his work after the first Matosinhosâ houses and the Tea House of Leça da Palmeira. The appeal to the vernacular roots and a kind of telluric topos that characterized the works of the 1950s, in this project gave rise to an abstract and minimalist approach applied to a domestic life. Intricate and meticulous in all its details from inside to out, in this house the overall design achieves a perfect harmony, in other words, a balanced and beautiful gesamkunstwerk
Transcontinental Modernism: How to Find the Shortcut
More than ever, it is urgent to expand the new emerging consciousness focused on the need to include other territories in our efforts to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the âModern Diaspora.â Recently, the development of concepts such as âhybridâ or the âothernessâ has been promoting a nuanced historical analysis on architecture and politics in the 20th century beyond a Eurocentric vision. The recognition that a widespread awareness of the Modern Movement architecture has always been serving colonization involves rethinking the basic principle of Modern welfare society and practiced architecture as a mission: how Modern principles have been exchanged, resulting from a Eurocentric culture with the cultures of East and Africa
Modern and Sustainable
Modern Movement Architecture is envisioned as a concept that deals with forms, spaces, techniques and social responsibility. In this docomomo Journal, the contributions on this discussion put together modernity and Modern heritage, economy and energy saving, the social mission and the responsibility of architects towards the future. Modern Movement is often mistakenly related to a style, perceived in a skinâdeep point of view and superficially adopted as simple form, as a modern shape, when in fact Modern Movement has always shown great concern with such issues, seeking for eficiency and economy, i.e., an accurate use of materials, a design approach that incorporates intelligent saving resources in order to create a better world
Seismic vulnerability and strengthening of a modern architecture building
In Portugal, at the end of the World War II, a new generation of architects emerged, influenced by the Modern Movement
Architecture. In the fifties, it was built a large number of Modern housing buildings in Lisbon, with particular structural
characteristics that, in certain conditions, can induce weaknesses in structural behaviour, especially under earthquake
loading. For example, the concept of buildings lifted in "pilotis", present in this architectural style, can strongly facilitate
the occurrence of soft-storey mechanisms, which makes these structures very vulnerable to earthquake actions. To
investigate the vulnerability of this type of construction, one building, representative of the Modern Architecture, in
Lisbon, was studied with a non-linear dynamic analysis program, PORANL, which allows the safety evaluation according
to recently proposed assessment procedures. Additionally, it was proposed and analyzed a retrofitting solution, to improve
the seismic performance, based on a bracing system with a damping device associated
Seismic vulnerability of Modern Architecture building's: Le Corbusier style: a case study
In Portugal, at the end of the World War II, a new generation of architects emerged, influenced by the Modern
Movement Architecture, born in Central-Europe in the early twenties but now influenced also by the Modern
Brazilian Architecture.
They worked with new typologies, such as multifamily high-rise buildings, and built them in the most important
cities of the country, during the fifties, reflecting the principles of the Modernity and with a strong formal conception
inspired in the International Styleâs codes.
Concrete, as material and technology, allowed that those âUnity Centreâ buildings become modern objects,
expressing the five-point formula that Le Corbusier enounced in 1927 and draw at the âUnitĂ© dâHabitation de
Marseilleâ, namely: the building lifted in pilotis, the free design of the plan, the free design of the façade, the
unbroken horizontal window and the roof terrace.
In Lisbon, late forties urban plans transformed and expanded the city, creating modulated buildings repeated in
great extensions â that was a progressist idea of standardization. The Infante Santo complex is a successful adaptation
to the Lisbon reality of the Modern Urbanism and Architecture.
In the fifties, it was built a large number of Modern housing buildings in Lisbon, with structural characteristics
that, in certain conditions, can induce weaknesses in structural behaviour, especially under earthquake loading. For
example, the concept of buildings lifted in pilotis can strongly facilitate the occurrence of soft-storey mechanisms,
which turns these structures very vulnerable to earthquake actions.
The development and calibration of refined numerical tools, as well as, assessment and design codes makes
feasible the structural safety assessment of existing buildings. To investigate the vulnerability of this type of
construction, one building representative of the Modern Architecture, at the Infante Santo Avenue, was studied. This
building was studied with the non-linear dynamic analysis program PORANL, which allows the safety evaluation
according to the recently proposed standards
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