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This is about the expressionist movement that prevailed sometime in the history of architecture. It includes the expressionist context and the movement and the fall of the movement. It is actually assignment for Contemporary Architecture and it aims to fulfill the basic context of expressionist movement.
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1CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
EXPRESSIONISM
MODERNISM
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
2CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215
EXPRESSIONISM
ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 EXPRESSIONISM
EVOLUTION OF EXPRESSIONISM VIA GERMANY
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215
EXPRESSIONIST MOVEMENT-INTRODUCTION
Present the world solely from subjective perspective Artists sought to express emotional experience rather than physical reality Characterized reaction against Positivism, Naturalism and Impressionism
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5EXPRESSIONIST MOVEMENT
ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 EVOLUTION
Julien Auguste Herve called his Art Exhibition as EXPRESSIONISMES in 1886 while Czech Art historian Antonin Matejcek coined the term in 1910 Precursors were Friedrich Nietzsche, August Stindberg, Walt Whitman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Sigmund Freud…. Die Brucke led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchev in 1905- founding expressionist movement
Van Gogh
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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 Characteristics in ART
Subjective interpretation, to express emotions, moods and ideas a form of ‘self-expression’ that offer an individual voice in a world perceive as both insecure and hostile. Use of intense colours
7CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 EXPRESSIONIST ARCHITECTURE-Intro - Context
Expressionist architecture described the activity of the German, Dutch, Austrian, Czech and Danish avant garde from 1910 until 1930 Political, economic and artistic shifts called Expressionist movement especially due to loss in war and depressions Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau influenced expressionists Constructivism, Futurism and Dada movement had similar expressions
Monument to the March Dead
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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 ARCHITECTURE CHARACTERS
Distorted form for emotional effect, subordination of realism Efforts to achieve innovation More mineral and elemental than organic and florid Artistic and craftmanship Architecture as a work of art- prime concept Profusion of works on paper, representation of concepts rather than pragmatic products. Tendencies towards Gothic, Romanesque and Rococo styles.
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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 ARCHITECTS AND ARCHITECTURE
Ar. Bruno Taut inspired from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche that resulted Taut’s Alpine Architecture“Objects serve psychologically to mirror the actors' emotions and gestures."
Erich Mendelshon built Einstein Tower built to symbolize greatness of Einstienian concept - 1919
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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 MATERIAL AND TECHNOLOGY
Unify the materials so as to make it monolithic. Collaboration of Bruno Taut and poet Paul Scheebart inventing Glass Architecture"Coloured glass destroys hatred","Without a glass palace life is a burden","Glass brings us a new era, building in brick only does us harm"- Paul Scheerbart
Brick was used as inherent nature of material asJosef Franke inCatholic parish church "Heilig-Kreuz" at Gelsenkirchen,Einstein Tower, Mendelshon – Example of Expressionist use of Monolithic materials.
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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 LEGACY, DECLINE AND REBIRTH
Influences on Art Deco -immediate successor
21st Cent. Deconstructivism, Blobitecture and works of Calatrava
1930 after Hitlers’ regime expressionism declinedNew Objectivity came as the reaction to subjective expressionismExistenzminimum philosophy- use of minimal resources
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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 NEO EXPRESSIONISM
Brutalist architecture as typically very linear, fortresslike and blockish, often a concrete construction “Architecture's principal function is emotion.“ – Ar. Mathias Goeritz
Eero Sarinen – TWA Terminal – organic forms close to Herman FinsterlinSydney Opera House- Jorn Utzon with the shell structure
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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215