High-tech

High-tech

High-tech architecture focuses on creating adaptable buildings through choice of materials, internal structural elements, and programmatic design. It seeks to avoid links to the past, and as such avoids building materials commonly used in older styles of architecture.

Archigram

• a group o f inventive young architects who gathered around Peter Cook at the Architectural Association, London, in the early 1960s.

The Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1971-77

Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano

influenced by The Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace 1851

The world's first monumental prefabricated building - admired by Richard Rogers who (among others) designed the Pompidou Centre.

Buckminster Fuller

Montreal Biosphere, is a museum dedicated to the environment

 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Norman Foster

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1978. (The first public building designed by N. Foster)

1990's - design of major airports

• Richard Rogers - Terminal Five , Heathrow, London

1990's - design of major airports

• Norman Foster - Chep Lap Kok, The new Hong Kong airport

1990's - design of major airports

• Renzo Piano - Kansai Airport

The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre

Noumea, (1991-98) New Caledonia