Jet Age Hotels and the International Style 1950–1965 by Bruce Peter

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 396-398
Author(s):  
Faye Hammill
Keyword(s):  
International Style

Kajian Arsitektur Regionalisme; Sebagai Wacana Menuju Arsitektur Tanggap Lingkungan Berkelanjutan

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Bonifacio Bayu Senasaputro
Keyword(s):  
International Style

Arsitektur Modern merupakan bentukan Arsitektur yang hadir pada periode Arsitektur yang menawarkan teknologi konstruksi yang dapat diproduksi secara massal. Salah satu implementasinya adalah, kehadirannya ke dalam citra bentuk geometri sederhana tanpa ornamen, serta tata ruang berimplikasi pada fungsi ke dalam struktur organisasi yang menyesuaikan dengan kebutuhan pengguna. Bentukan yang muncul pada Arsitektur Modern salah satunya adalah, langgam International Style. Langgam ini mengkategorikan dan memperluas pandangan secara umum tentang implementasi Arsitektur yang dapat diterapkan pada lingkung geografis di seluruh dunia. Permasalahan umum yang teridentifikasi adalah terputusnya rantai entitas yang menghubungkan antara Arsitektur, dengan lingkung binaan yang berada di sekitarnya. Beberapa masalah yang muncul dalam perwujudannya seperti bentuk eksplorasi teknologi konstruksi modern yang memiliki kecenderungan mengaburkan nilai – nilai dan jati diri Arsitektur lokal, serta permasalahan iklim mikro yang patut diselesaikan melalui eksplorasi terhadap ciri fisik geografi dan iklim dari suatu wilayah. Regionalisme merupakan suatu bentuk cara pandang Arsitektur dari suatu wilayah setempat, yang memiliki ciri – ciri, sistem tata nilai, dan metode implementasi yang unik untuk diterapkan, dan hadir sebagai wujud kritik terhadap hadirnya Arsitektur Modern beserta dengan International-Style nya. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan peranan dari Arsitektur Regionalisme, ditinjau dari berbagai unsur dan elemen yang membentuk sistem lingkung binaan yang bersinergi dan kontekstual dengan lingkungan setempat. Studi dalam kajian ini menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif – kualitatif, melalui pendekatan preseden beberapa karya Arsitektur Regionalism sebagai contoh kasus terapan. Hasil dari kajian ini adalah, Regionalisme hadir sebagai unsur penyelaras dan penyeimbang, yang menciptakan sebuah dialog yang saling bersinergi antara teknologi, seni, nilai budaya yang berkembang, dengan lingkung alam geografis yang melebur menjadi satu keutuhan dalam realitas Arsitektur. Kata kunci: regionalisme, identitas (kontekstual), lingkung berkelanjutan

The Grid, the Spectacle and the Labyrinth in The Big Clocks Skyscraper: Queered Space and Cold War Discourse

Film Studies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Merrill Schleier
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Style ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
War Discourse ◽  
War Film

The Big Clocks skyscraper is a mechanical, entrapping grid controlled by a huge timepiece. It is presided over by the homosexual Janoth who tries to frame Stroud for a murder that he committed. This article traces Stroud‘s journey within the International Style skyscrapers temporarily ‘queered spaces.’ The Cold War film seeks the removal of undesirable ‘aliens’ to liberate capitalist space and reassert hegemonic heterosexuality. The married Stroud outsmarts his adversaries, leading to Janoth‘s death by his own building. After Janoth is symbolically ‘outed,’ he kills his partner before plummeting down a hellish elevator shaft, punishment for his ‘perverse’ deeds.

scholarly journals Criminal Skins: Tattoos and Modern Architecture in the Work of Adolf Loos

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 235-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimena Canales ◽  
Andrew Herscher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
International Style

Adolf Loos’s famous essay, ‘Ornament and Crime’, decisively linked unornamented architecture with the culture of modernity and, in so doing, became one of the key formulations of modern architecture. To a great extent, the essay’s force comes from arguments drawn from nineteenth-century criminal anthropology. Nevertheless, Loos’s work has been consistently understood only within the context of the inter-war avant- gardes. In the 1920s, Le Corbusier was particularly enthusiastic in bringing Loos’s work to the fore, thereby establishing its future reception. ‘Ornament and Crime’ became an essential catalyst for architecture’s conversion away from the historicism of the nineteenth century to modernism. At the turn of the century, Loos’s essay already foreshadowed the white abstraction of ‘less is more’ architecture and the functionalist rigour of the International Style which would dominate the twentieth century.

Kavaklidere-Ankara: The Formation of a Residential District During the 1950s

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Çılga Resuloğlu ◽  
Elvan Altan Ergut
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
International Style ◽  
Residential District ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This paper aims to examine the formation of Kavaklıdere as a ‘modern’ residential district during the 1950s. Contemporary urbanization brought about changes in various regions of Ankara, among which Kavaklıdere emerged as an important location with features that defined a new stage in the development of the identity of the capital city. The construction of houses in this district from the early 1950s onwards was in accordance with new functional requirements resulting from the needs of the contemporary socio-economic context, and exemplified the relationship between architectural approaches and social developments. In line with the rapid urbanization of Ankara throughout the 1950s, daily life in Kavaklıdere was transformed, as experienced in the apartment blocks that were the newly constructed sites of modernization. The contemporary transformation of Kavaklıdere was apparently formal and spatial, with the modernist architectural approach of the period, i.e. the so-called International Style, beginning to dominate in the shaping of its changing character. Nonetheless, the transformation was not only architectural but also social: the characteristics of this part of the city were then defined by structures like these apartment blocks, which brought modernist design features, together with modern ways of living, into wider public use and appreciation. The paper discusses how the identity of Kavaklıdere as a residential district was formed in the context of the mid-twentieth century, when these new residences emerged as pioneering modernist architectural housing, the product of social change, which housed and hence facilitated the ‘modern’ lifestyle of that time.

Art-Nouveau and the Portrait of the Fin de Siècle Woman in Jules Massenet’s Cléopâtre

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (62) (SI) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Noemi KARACSONY
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
International Style ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
Final Work ◽  
Applied Arts

The present paper strives to evoke the context in which one of Jules Massenet’s last operas, “Cléopâtre” was created: the Belle Époque period with its various stylistic orientations. Among the numerous art movements of the fin de siècle, Art Nouveau establishes itself as one of the most important styles, gradually becoming an international style often associated with the Belle Époque. Characterized by curving forms and undulating lines, Art Nouveau was used in architecture, fine and applied arts. One of the aims of this style was to dissolve the distinction between the various forms of art. Art Nouveau representations gave birth to a particular feminine type, also represented in Massenetțs “Cléopâtre”, an opera inspired by the vocal and dramatic endowments of French singer Lucy Arbell. The analysis focuses on the vocal characterization of Cléopâtre as sonorous representation of the fin de siècle woman, highlighting some of the musical innovations employed by Massenet in this final work.

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