INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES OF THE EARLY 20TH CENT.

How could the pace be described?

There have been more discoveries and inventions in the last three centuries than in the whole previous history of mankind.

• the condition of life of man has change drastically through the last century

• It was an exponential growth

What are some INVENTIONS & DISCOVERIES in the period of the 20th century?

There are 3 TOTAL AREAS:

• CULTURAL

• ECONOMIC

• SOCIAL

Discovery of the concept of time

• changed the way we perceive life

• Influenced the idea of cinema & photography

• The ability to capture time & movement in an image (Duchamp & Nude descending a staircase)

• Architectural representation of time would be LE CORBUSIER ramp, with changing „images” As we go up

Discovery of MCHINES

• allows for the use of different systems in modern furniture

• In interiors things could be used more prominently

• Bauhaus - form follows function - just how machines have different devices that follow different functions

What are some characteristic of a modern buidling

• The base on the ground

• The use of the visible structural device

• The join with the sky: the flat roof

• The basemental architecture and the acropolistic character of the buildings

• The dematerialization of the corner

• The use of the glass

• The screen wall and the enclosure wall

• The canopy

• The use of the Cartesian grid

• The displacement of the volumes (a “pre-established disharmony”)

• The dimensional scale out

• reinforced concrete & tubular steel/metals

Traditional materials used in a novel way, turn into new materials. Examples of trad. Mat.

• wood → plywood

• stone

• brick

• glass