Modern & Contemporary Architecture

ARCH 3101

Sharif Tousif Hossain

Lecturer
Department of Architecture
Stamford university
Egyptian…..313 AD – 500 AD
Greek
Roman
Early Christian
Byzantine
Dark age
Romanesque
Gothic
Renaissance…..up to 1500
Baroque……up to 1600
Rococo…….up to 1700
20th Century
 Roots
in the 18th and 19th Century
New World in the 18th Century

Enlightenment
….movement of scientific knowledge and rational thoughts led by scientists, mathematicians,
philosophers, archeologists, explorers, engineers, architects….

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 Roots
in the 18th and 19th Century
New World in the 18th Century
Fundamental changes in political culture
 Enhanced significance of the social status of every citizen
 Century old monarchies replaced by democratic constitutions

American Declaration of Independence (1776)

French Revolution (1789)

Industrial Revolution (1750)

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World at the turn if the Century (1890 –
1910)
Increasing Mechanization
Two Symbols
Steam Engine (by Watt in 1785)
Railway (Crown Street Station in Liverpool, 1830)

New technology
Machine work replaced hand-work
New urban working class
Factory/towns
Improved living condition
New building materials
Cast and wrought iron…..

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World at the turn if the Century (1890 –
1910)
Increasing Mechanization

New types
…machine shops, industries, railway stations, massive bridge,
tunnels…..

New Buildings
Prestigious Parliament Buildings
Town halls
Museum
Department stores
Roofed-in-shopping streets

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World at the turn if the Century (1890 –
1910)
Baroque (central Europe)
Rococo (France)
Neo-classicism (enlightenments….reaction to Rococo)
(Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1819-1968) in France….well established school of
Architectural edu…..synonymous with architectural education in England
and America, bastion of Neo-classicism)

Romanticism and Picturesque

(reaction to Neo-Classicism & Industrial Revolution)

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World at the turn if the Century (1890 –
1910)
Neo-classicism & Romanticism
Freedom
• Revival of historic styles
(Gothic, Greek, Islamic, Egyptian,
Byzantine & early…)

• Inventive new creation

(progress in iron…glass….steel…
concrete…)

Reference:
World at the turn if the Century (1890 –
1910)
Baroque (central Europe)
Rococo (France)
Neo-classicism (enlightenments….reaction to Rococo)
(Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1819-1968) in France….well established school of
Architectural edu…..synonymous with architectural education in England
and America, bastion of Neo-classicism)

Romanticism and Picturesque

(reaction to Neo-Classicism & Industrial Revolution)

Reference: