dissertation

vastukala academy
college of architecture

the cultural role of architecture

the cultural role of architecture
the cultural role of architecture
the cultural role of architecture

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5TH YEAR
INDEX
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1
CULTURE & CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY

CHAPTER 2
ASPECTS GOVERNING CULTURE

CHAPTER 3
ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE IN SHAPING CULTURE

CHAPTER 4
CUTURAL ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE

CHAPTER 5
PRESENT SCENARIO

CHAPTER 6
PRETEXT OF DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 7
ARCHITECTS ROLE

SUMMARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The Bay Adelaide Centre in Toronto.

When first proposed in the 1980s the
building had a strongly postmodernist
design. The final design, completed in
2009, adopted the neomodern style.

Building in Pretoria with a neomodern

architectural design.

METAMODERNISM

Metamodernism is a set of developments in philosophy, aesthetics, and culture which are emerging from and
reacting to postmodernism. Metamodernism is neither a residual nor an emergent structure of feeling, but the
dominant cultural logic of contemporary modernity.

Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuronbest known for their

conversion of the giant Bankside Power Station in London
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VANCOUVERISM

Vancouver city skyline view.

Vancouverism is an urban planning and architectural phenomenon in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that is
unique to North America. It is characterized by a large residential population living in the city centre with mixed-use
developments, typically with a medium-height, commercial base and narrow, high-rise residential towers, significant
reliance on mass public transit, creation and maintenance of green park spaces, and preserving view corridors.
REMODERNISM
Remodernism in an attempt to introduce a period of new spirituality into art, culture and society to replace
postmodernism.
Remodernism manifesto was published on March 1, 2000 to promote vision, authenticity and self-expression, with
an emphasis on painting, and subtitled "towards a new spirituality in art." Its premise is that the potential of
the modernist vision has not been fulfilled, that its development has been in the wrong direction and that this vision
needs to be reclaimed, redefined and redeveloped. It advocates the search for truth, knowledge and meaning, and
challenges formalism.

Show, The Stuckists: The First Remodernist Art Group,

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PHENOMENOLOGY
Phenomenology is both a current aspect of philosophy influencing contemporary architecture and a field of
academic research into the experience of built space and of building materials in their sensory aspects.
In phenomenology, the environment is concretely defined as "the place", and the things which occur there "take
place". The place is not so simple as the locality, but consists of concrete things which have material substance,
shape, texture, and color, and together coalesce to form the environment's character, or atmosphere.

PRATT INSTITUTE HIGGINS HALL REBUILT CENTER SECTION STEVEN HOLLCHAPPEL PETER ZUMTHOR
KLAUS

BIOMIMETIC ARCHITECTURE
Biomimetic architecture is a contemporary philosophy of architecture that seeks solutions for sustainability in
nature, not by replicating the natural forms, but by understanding the rules governing those forms. It is a multi-
disciplinary approach to sustainable design that follows a set of principles rather than stylistic codes. It is part of a
larger movement known as biomimicry, which is the examination of nature, its models, systems, and processes for
the purpose of gaining inspiration in order to solve man-made problems. Biomimicry can work on three levels:
the organism, its behaviors, and the ecosystem

GHERKIN
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BLOBITECTURE
Blobitecture from blob architecture, blobism or blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which
buildings have an organic,amoeba-shaped, building form.

GOLDEN TERRACES IN WARSAW, FOSTER AND PARTNERS CITY HALL DZ BANK FRANK O GEHRY
POLAND BY JERDE PARTNERSHIP LONDON

INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE
Industrial architecture is the design and construction of buildings serving industry. Such buildings rose in
importance with the industrial revolution, and were some of the pioneering structures of modern architecture.

Types of industrial buildings

Brewery
Distillery
Drilling rig
Factory
Forge
Foundry
Gristmill
Mine
Power plant
Refinery
Sawmill
Warehouse

DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE
Digital architecture uses computer modeling, programming, simulation and imaging to create both virtual forms and
physical structures. Digital architecture allows complex calculations that delimit architects and allow a diverse range
of complex forms to be created with great ease using computer algorithms. The new genre of "scripted, iterative, and
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indexical architecture" produces a proliferation of formal outcomes, leaving the designer the role of selection and
increasing the possibilities in architectural design.

FUTURIST ARCHITECTURE
Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by strong
chromaticism, long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism: it was a part of Futurism, an
artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the Manifesto of
Futurism in 1909.

CIVIL JUSTICE CENTRE, MANCHESTER(2008) BY DENTON CORKER MARSHALL,

TADAO ANDO, ARCHIGRAM, SANTIAGO CALATRAVA,ARTHUR ERICKSON, FUTURE SYSTEMS,

MICHAEL GRAVES, ZAHA HADID, DENIS LAMING, JOHN LAUTNER,VIRGILIO MARCHI,

WAYNE MCALLISTER, OSCAR NIEMEYER,CESAR PELLI, WILLIAM PEREIRA,

PATRICIO POUCHULU, EERO SAARINEN

LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE (WILLIAM PEREIRA, 1965)

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CATHEDRAL OF BRASLIA(OSCAR NIEMEYER, 1960)

CRITICAL REGIONALISM
Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of
the International Style (architecture), but also rejects the whimsical individualism and ornamentation of Postmodern
architecture. The stylings of critical regionalism seeks to provide an architecture rooted in the modern tradition, but
tied to geographical and cultural context. Critical regionalism is not simply regionalism in the sense of vernacular
architecture. It is a progressive approach to design that seeks to mediate between the global and the local languages
of architecture.
The phrase "critical regionalism" was first used by the architectural theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre
and, with a slightly different meaning, by the historian-theorist Kenneth Frampton.
Critical Regionalists thus hold that both modern and post-modern architecture are "deeply problematic".

JRN UTZON, BAGSVAERD CHURCH (19736), DENMARK

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ALVAR AALTO, SAYNATSALO TOWN HALL (1952), FINLAND

DECONSTRUCTIVISM
Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is influenced by the
theory of "Deconstruction", which is a form of semiotic analysis. It is characterized by fragmentation, an interest in
manipulating a structure's surface, skin, non-rectilinear shapes which appear to distort and dislocate elements of
architecture, such as structure and envelope. The finished visual appearance of buildings that exhibit deconstructivist
"styles" is characterized by unpredictability and controlled chaos.

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STEINHAUS STEINDORF
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SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

ENERGY-PLUS-HOUSES AT FREIBURG-VAUBAN IN GERMANY

Sustainable architecture is architecture that seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by
efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and development space. Sustainable architecture uses a
conscious approach to energy and ecological conservation in the design of the built environment.
The idea of sustainability, or ecological design, is to ensure that our actions and decisions today do not inhibit the
opportunities of future generations.

NOVELTY ARCHITECTURE

THE LONGABERGER COMPANY HEADQUARTERS IN NEWARK, OHIO

Novelty architecture is a type of architecture in which buildings and other structures are given unusual shapes for
purposes such as advertising or to copy other famous buildings without any intention of being authentic. Their size
and novelty means that they often serve as landmarks. They are distinct from architectural follies, in that novelty
architecture is essentially usable buildings in eccentric form whereas follies are non-usable, ornamental buildings
often in eccentric form.

Conceptualism in Architecture
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When we see a traditional building design, we easily apply adjectives, usually either ugly or beautiful. We can not
express ourselves in relation to the work of architecture because it is one repetition of a old concept beaten and
folded, so used previously that it is no longer a concept. But when the completed work evokes other feelings
because, in addition to aesthetic appeal or not, we note that there is something different in the work, it is probably
related to a new or unusual concept.
There is no work without concept, but some buildings have more conceptual efforts that drive the viewer into strong
feelings, of novelty or even strangeness.

It is All About Feeling

The architects who seek conceptual architecture appropriate the technology elements, materials, and aesthetics to
cause the desired mood, even if that is indifference, apathy, or disgust. Often the results of this creation are just
buildings, pure and simple, after all simplicity and purity can also be used as a concept, especially when reconciled to
practicality.
It is difficult to define a concept of architecture, which after all, can be anything- a feeling, a proportion, a word, an
attitude, a color, or an activity. Anything can become a strong concept, which in turn will be responsible for a good
architecture. It is simply the architect knows that you define it, express it, and explore it.

BURJ AL ARAB
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF SAO

PAULO

ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE

FALLINGWATER BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the
natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site, that buildings, furnishings,
and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition.

HIGH-TECH ARCHITECTURE
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THE HSBC HONG KONG HEADQUARTERS,

High-tech architecture, also known as Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism, is an architectural style that
emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech
architecture appeared as a revamped modernism, an extension of those previous ideas helped by even more
technological advances. This category serves as a bridge between modernism and post-modernism; however, there
remain gray areas as to where one category ends and the other begins. In the 1980s, high-tech architecture became
more difficult to distinguish from post-modern architecture. Some of its themes and ideas were later absorbed into the
style of Neo-Futurism art and architectural movement.
Like Brutalism, Structural Expressionist buildings reveal their structure on the outside as well as the inside, but with
visual emphasis placed on the internal steel and/or concrete skeletal structure as opposed to exterior concrete walls.
In buildings such as the Pompidou Centre, this idea of revealed structure is taken to the extreme, with apparently
structural components serving little or no structural role. In this case, the use of "structural" steel is a stylistic or
aesthetic matter.

DIGITAL MORPHOGENESIS
Digital morphogenesis is a process of shape development (or morphogenesis[1]) enabled by computation. While
this concept is applicable in many areas, the term "digital morphogenesis" is used primarily in architecture.
In architecture, digital morphogenesis is a group of methods that employ digital media for form-making and
adaptation rather than for representation, often in an aspiration to express or respond to contextual processes. "In
this inclusive understanding, digital morphogenesis in architecture bears a largely analogous or metaphoric
relationship to the processes of morphogenesis in nature, sharing with it the reliance on gradual development but not
necessarily adopting or referring to the actual mechanisms of growth or adaptation. Recent discourse on digital
morphogenesis in architecture links it to a number of concepts including emergence, self-organization and form-
finding."[6]

PARAMETRIC DESIGN
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Parametric design is a process based on algorithmic thinking that enables the expression of parameters and rules
that, together, define, encode and clarify the relationship between design intent and design response.
Parametric design is a paradigm in design where the relationship between elements are used to manipulate and
inform the design of complex geometries and structures.
The term 'Parametric' originates from mathematics (Parametric equation) and refers to the use of certain parameters
or variables that can be edited to manipulate or alter the end result of an equation or system. Parametric design is
not a new concept and has always formed a part of architecture and design. The consideration of changing forces
such as climate, setting, culture, and use has always formed part of the design process.

SHENZHEN BAO'AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT T3 HALL

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer systems to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or
optimization of a design. CAD software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of
design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing. CAD output is
often in the form of electronic files for print, machining, or other manufacturing operations.