ARC1001M History & Theory of Architecture & Design
Maison Carrée & Carré d’Art, Nîmes
Link to Foster’s Building Sights programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01rqxwc/building-sights-series-3-1-boeing-747
Sainsbury centre, Norwich, 1974-8
Renault distribution centre, Swindon, 1982
Renzo Piano & Richard RogersCentre National d’Art et Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1971-1977
Rogers, Lloyd’s building, London, 1978-86
“universally recognised as one of the key buildings of the modern epoch”Historic England
the modern project
break with past, often forcible rejection, new spirit, progressive movement
social equality, liberation of masses oppressed by industrial labour
purity, cleanliness, unornamented, honesty of expression
new materials and technologies, mass production, prefabrication
function equated with beauty, planning and order produce ideal
abstraction, immutable truths of mathematics, basis for universality
Link to Foster’s Building Sights programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01rqxwc/building-sights-series-3-1-boeing-747