Lesson 9: Contemporary Architecture

The elements of art and principles of design or organization also apply in architecture.

• Art Production

• Art Appreciation

relates to the structure and its parts to human beings who occupy the space

relates to the proportion of an object or space to all other objects in it and also to human beings and their activities held in the structure

where the major and subordinate elements are determined in the structural design

• emphasis

• balance

• harmony

• proportion

give artistic surfaces designed by structural limits, edges, and corners

architectural materials: wood, stone and brick

• Classic Materials

• Modern Materials

architectural material; Modern material

• cast-iron

• structural steel

• reinforced concrete

• metal wire

set the stage for steel-skeleton construction; permits the construction of tall buildings without prohibitively thick walls

• cast-iron

• steel manufacture and fabrication

• reinforced concrete

• structural steel

advanced the architecture construction of tall buildings through tubular, extruded, and corrugated steel products

• cast-iron

• steel manufacture and fabrication

• reinforced concrete

• structural steel

"ferro concrete" is vastly more efficient than stonemasonry piers and arches

• cast-iron

• steel manufacture and fabrication

• reinforced concrete

• structural steel