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ANUPA BHATTA 206 DIPESH PRADHAN 215 CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE EXPRESSIONISM MODERNISM SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE 1

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This is about the expressionist movement that prevailed sometime in the history of architecture. It includes the expressionist context and the movement and the fall of the movement. It is actually assignment for Contemporary Architecture and it aims to fulfill the basic context of expressionist movement.

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EXPRESSIONISM

MODERNISM

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

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EXPRESSIONISM

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 EXPRESSIONISM

EVOLUTION OF EXPRESSIONISM VIA GERMANY

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EXPRESSIONIST MOVEMENT-INTRODUCTION

Present the world solely from subjective perspective Artists sought to express emotional experience rather than physical reality Characterized reaction against Positivism, Naturalism and Impressionism

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 EVOLUTION

Julien Auguste Herve called his Art Exhibition as EXPRESSIONISMES in 1886 while Czech Art historian Antonin Matejcek coined the term in 1910 Precursors were Friedrich Nietzsche, August Stindberg, Walt Whitman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Sigmund Freud…. Die Brucke led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchev in 1905- founding expressionist movement

Van Gogh

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 Characteristics in ART

Subjective interpretation, to express emotions, moods and ideas a form of ‘self-expression’ that offer an individual voice in a world perceive as both insecure and hostile. Use of intense colours

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 EXPRESSIONIST ARCHITECTURE-Intro - Context

Expressionist architecture described the activity of the German, Dutch, Austrian, Czech and Danish avant garde from 1910 until 1930 Political, economic and artistic shifts called Expressionist movement especially due to loss in war and depressions Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau influenced expressionists Constructivism, Futurism and Dada movement had similar expressions

Monument to the March Dead

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 ARCHITECTURE CHARACTERS

Distorted form for emotional effect, subordination of realism Efforts to achieve innovation More mineral and elemental than organic and florid Artistic and craftmanship Architecture as a work of art- prime concept Profusion of works on paper, representation of concepts rather than pragmatic products. Tendencies towards Gothic, Romanesque and Rococo styles.

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 ARCHITECTS AND ARCHITECTURE

Ar. Bruno Taut inspired from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche that resulted Taut’s Alpine Architecture“Objects serve psychologically to mirror the actors' emotions and gestures."

Erich Mendelshon built Einstein Tower built to symbolize greatness of Einstienian concept - 1919

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 MATERIAL AND TECHNOLOGY

Unify the materials so as to make it monolithic. Collaboration of Bruno Taut and poet Paul Scheebart inventing Glass Architecture"Coloured glass destroys hatred","Without a glass palace life is a burden","Glass brings us a new era, building in brick only does us harm"- Paul Scheerbart

Brick was used as inherent nature of material asJosef Franke inCatholic parish church "Heilig-Kreuz" at Gelsenkirchen,Einstein Tower, Mendelshon – Example of Expressionist use of Monolithic materials.

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 LEGACY, DECLINE AND REBIRTH

Influences on Art Deco -immediate successor

21st Cent. Deconstructivism, Blobitecture and works of Calatrava

1930 after Hitlers’ regime expressionism declinedNew Objectivity came as the reaction to subjective expressionismExistenzminimum philosophy- use of minimal resources

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ANUPA BHATTA 206DIPESH PRADHAN 215 NEO EXPRESSIONISM

Brutalist architecture as typically very linear, fortresslike and blockish, often a concrete construction “Architecture's principal function is emotion.“ – Ar. Mathias Goeritz

Eero Sarinen – TWA Terminal – organic forms close to Herman FinsterlinSydney Opera House- Jorn Utzon with the shell structure

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