Monday, 27 October 2014

The Globalisation of modern Architecture: the impact of politics, economics and social change on Architecture and urban design since 1900 - Robert Adam, ebrary, Inc 2012 - Pages 7-29

Reading 1 (Week 11)
A short history of Globalisation 
The Ancient empires standardised architecture across continents.
 Saw by the ancient word and still active to this day are two major establishments. 
(The great Monotheistic religions of Christianity and Islam).

'The Enlightenment' – Movement of the 18th Century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than 'tradition' and 'religion'. Political and cultural change was taking place in Europe as the result of exploration and the extension of overseas empires, especially in America. 'With Enlightenment thinking, Modernism was explicitly opposed to the continuation of tradition.'


Colonisation and the Spread of European Culture - When colonisers destroyed native culture, the home architecture of the colonists became the architecture of the colony. 


'Architecture in the 1920s and 1930s took different directions expressing Nationalism, Internationalism.’ However the distinctions between Architectural styles weren't always defined within the condition of modernity. Rise of nationalism.


 Each country creates their individual Architectural style ideas within the Architectural styles have been transferred throughout the globalisation.  This reading hasn’t had an influence on my current design, however I feel more aware of how Architectual styles came about.

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