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5 Art Movements that Influenced Architecture

Dima Stouhi — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:30:00 +0000

As far as history goes back, art and architecture have always been interrelated disciplines. From the elaboration of the Baroque movement to the geometric framework of modernism, architects found inspiration from stylistic approaches, techniques, and concepts of historic art movements, and translated them into large-scale habitable structures. In this article, we explore 5 of many art movements that paved the way for modern-day architecture, looking into how architects borrowed from their characteristics and approaches to design to create their very own architectural compositions.

The Myth of Pure White Architecture: How Architects of Modernity Used Color

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective imagination. Relieved of superfluous decorations, modern architecture became associated with the predominant use of white surfaces to highlight the volumetric composition. Combined with the concept of “material truth” first articulated by Victorian critic John Ruskin, white-colored architecture is often understood as straightforward, clear, and sincere.

Towards an Architecture of Light, Color, and Virtual Experiences

Fredrik Hellberg & Lara Lesmes — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000

This essay by Space Popular references an installation currently on display at Sto Werkstatt, in London. You can experience it in virtual reality, here.

Space Popular Reignite the Concerns of "The Glass Chain" Letters By Way of Virtual Reality

James Taylor-Foster — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:45:00 +0000

"The Glass Chain" (Die Gläserne Kette in its native German) was an exchange of written letters initiated by Bruno Taut in November 1919. The correspondence lasted only a year, and included the likes of Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, and Paul Gösch. In the letters, the penfriends—thirteen in all—speculated and fantasized about the possibilities of glass, imagining, in the words of Fredrik Hellberg and Lara Lesmes (Space Popular), "fluid and organic glass follies and colourful crystal cathedrals covering entire mountain chains and even reaching into space."