A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This paper examines a common directive in the theory of the Modern Movement concerning the vertical surfaces of buildings: the dominance of the horizontal direction over the vertical direction of traditional architecture. While assumed by the protagonists and apologists of the Modern Movement to be a concomitant of technology, this tacit directive is examined here as an aesthetic emblem rather than a rational or functional ideal and is contextualized as a badge of Modernism's identity.
This paper examines a common directive in the theory of the Modern Movement concerning the vertical surfaces of buildings: the dominance of the horizontal direction over the vertical direction of traditional architecture. While assumed by the protagonists and apologists of the Modern Movement to be a concomitant of technology, this tacit directive is examined here as an aesthetic emblem rather than a rational or functional ideal and is contextualized as a badge of Modernism's identity.
Horizontality
Schumacher, Thomas L. (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 59 ; 17-26
2005-09-01
10 pages
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Horizontality: The Modernist Line
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