NEO FUTURISM

MODERN ARCHITECTURE

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INTRODUCTION :
• Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement
in the arts, design, poetry and architecture.
• It is also known as AVANT GARDE moment.
• Neo-futuristic urbanists, architects, designers and artists
believe in cities releasing emotions, driven by
ecosustainability, ethical values and implementing new
materials and new technologies to provide a better quality
of life for city-dwellers.
• Futurist architecture began in the 20th century starting with
styles such as Art Deco and later with the Googie
movement as well as high-tech architecture.
ORIGIN
• The movement has its origins in the
mid-20th-century structural
expressionist work of architects such
as Alvar Aalto and Buckminster
Fuller. ALVAR ALTO BUCKMINISTER
• Beginning in the late 1960s and early FULLER
1970s by architects such as
Buckminster Fuller and John C.
Portman Jr.
• It is considered in part an evolution
out of high-tech architecture,
developing many of the same themes
JOHN C PORTMAN JR
and ideas
PRINCIPLES :
• Human figure and nature's creativity
• Experimentation with materials and their
properties
• Blending Impressive visual style and the
strict rules of engineering
• Eco sustainability

Human twisting inspiration

Experiment of materials
Eco sustainability
MAJOR ARCHITECTS :

PETER COOK CEDRIC PRICE RICHARD ROGERS RENZO PIANO

NORMAN FOSTER SANTIAGO CALATRAVA ZAHA HAID

RENZO PIANO :
STYLE OF DESIGN

• His architecture is defined as solid

PAUL KLEE CENTRE
construction made by excellent materials .
• He took advantage of the topography to
the relationship between the internal
spaces and also to the outside.
• Renzo Piano designed a building capable LONGITUDINAL SECTION
of integrating with nature, intribute to one
of the most prolific and profound artists of
modern times.

TRANSVERSE SECTION
NORMAN FOSTER :

• Using high-tech equipment and pushing

the edge of structural engineering, he is
able to push the edge of architectural
designing. High-tech buildings are more
flexible, and thus more distinctive. INSPIRATION
LONDON CITY HALL
• A high-tech building, is also energy
efficient

• The roof of City Hall is provided

with a completed installation of
photovoltaic solar panels.
• Running along the interior atrium is
a stepped ramp which continues
spiraling up above the debating
chamber.

LONGITUDINAL SECTION
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA
PHILOSOPHY AND STYLE

• Human figure and nature’s creativity

• Experimentation with materials and their properties LAYON SATOLAS TGV STATION
• Blends impressive visual style and the strict rules of
engineering
• Symbolic and recognizable the world over for the sense of
movement captured in a stationary object.
• Long sweeping lines, stark white materials and a flawless
use of glass and light.
CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS
• Has a definite vision of inside and outside, the concave
and convex, of how we face the specific world • An expressive shape that
everyone calls the bird.
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