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    Modern architecture developed in the 20th century to meet the functional needs of society and masses. It moved away from religious and geographical influences and used new materials like steel and concrete to create large buildings like skyscrapers, offices, and housing. Prominent architects like Le Corbusier developed principles like using "pilotis" or raised foundations to free up space, having an open "free plan" floor design without load-bearing walls, and incorporating windows as a horizontal "ribbon" to maximize light and air flow. Le Corbusier's works like the Villa Savoye exemplified these principles of Modern architecture.

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    Modern architecture developed in the 20th century to meet the functional needs of society and masses. It moved away from religious and geographical influences and used new materials like steel and concrete to create large buildings like skyscrapers, offices, and housing. Prominent architects like Le Corbusier developed principles like using "pilotis" or raised foundations to free up space, having an open "free plan" floor design without load-bearing walls, and incorporating windows as a horizontal "ribbon" to maximize light and air flow. Le Corbusier's works like the Villa Savoye exemplified these principles of Modern architecture.

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    Modern architecture developed in the 20th century to meet the functional needs of society and masses. It moved away from religious and geographical influences and used new materials like steel and concrete to create large buildings like skyscrapers, offices, and housing. Prominent architects like Le Corbusier developed principles like using "pilotis" or raised foundations to free up space, having an open "free plan" floor design without load-bearing walls, and incorporating windows as a horizontal "ribbon" to maximize light and air flow. Le Corbusier's works like the Villa Savoye exemplified these principles of Modern architecture.

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    Modern Architecture

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    Modern architecture developed in the 20th century to meet the functional needs of society and masses. It moved away from religious and geographical influences and used new materials like steel and concrete to create large buildings like skyscrapers, offices, and housing. Prominent architects like Le Corbusier developed principles like using "pilotis" or raised foundations to free up space, having an open "free plan" floor design without load-bearing walls, and incorporating windows as a horizontal "ribbon" to maximize light and air flow. Le Corbusier's works like the Villa Savoye exemplified these principles of Modern architecture.

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    MODERN ARCHITECTURE

    Since 20th century


    • Architecture in olden days was a commodity
    of rich and powerful
    • Religious buildings
    • Palaces
    • Castles
    • Monuments
    • Modern architecture was developed to suit
    the masses
    • It had no influences of geological,
    geographical, climatic, social and religious
    customs
    • Modern architecture developed to cater the
    functional needs of the society
    • Shopping centres
    • Mass housing facility
    • Factories
    • Office buildings
    • Bus terminals
    • Airports
    Modern materials & new techniques

    • Steel: most suitabe structural material for


    framing huge cellular buildings
    • Helped to produce uninterrupted spans over
    openings
    • Trusses and frames
    • Use of steel produced a fundamental change
    in architectural design
    Modern materials & new techniques

    • Use of RCC produced a new breed of buildings


    ie sky scrapers
    • RCC curtain walls replaced massive stone walls
    producing larger interior space
    • Pre stressed : Bridges
    • Glass transparent to Ultra violet but opaque
    to infra red rays came to be extensively used
    instead of shades, blinds and curtains
    Architects of 20 century
    th

    • Mies van der Rohe


    • Le Corbusier
    • Frank Loyd Wright
    • Louis Sullivan
    • Walter Gropious
    • Peter Behrens
    Le Corbusier

    • French
    •  architect
    • urban planner
    • painter
    • sculptor
    • Writer (Vers une Architecture)
    • He defines house as a
    “Machine to live in, with walls as smooth as
    sheet iron with windows like a tool”
    by this he meant the building should be built
    with utmost care and precision as that for
    manufacturing a machine
    Design strategy
    • used sensible systems that were functional in
    living with the use of simple modules and spaces
    • Incorporated industrial forms in housing and
    apartment schemes
    • man was the center of his design principles.
    • architecture is to support the functions of the
    person whether working, relaxing, or partaking
    in other activity.
    Five points to A new Architecture
    ( Vers une Architecture)
    • 1. pilotis
    • 2. free plan
    • 3. free facade
    • 4.long horizontal sliding window
    • 5. roof garden
    Pilotis or pillars

    • raised the building off the ground on pilotis,


    which 'free' the ground for multiple uses
    • Garden can be created below it
    • Can be used for parking cars
    • The rooms are thereby removed from the
    dampness of the soil
    • they have light and air
    Free plan
    • Pilotis extend to the roof and they carry the
    intermediate celings
    • interior walls may be placed wherever
    required each floor being entirely
    independent of the rest
    • no longer any supporting walls but only
    membranes of any thickness.
    • Free facade • Roof gardens
    -Exterior walls are no – Flat roofs with
    longer load bearing garden at top
    – replace land lost
    -Can be designed freely underneath the
    building
    Ribbon or horizontal windows
    • Together with the intermediate ceilings the
    supports form rectangular openings in the
    facade through which light and air enter
    copiously.
    • The window extends from support to support
    becoming a horizontal window
    • Provided uniform and maximum illumination
    to the rooms
    Villa Savoye, Poissy, France
    Citrohan House
    Swiss Dormitory Paris
    Other outstanding Works
    • Ozenfant house, Paris
    • Union of Co-operatives, Moscow
    • The United Nations Headquarters
    • The carpenter centre, Harvard University
    • Villa ‘Les Terraces’, Paris

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