Abstract Idea through Modern Architecture.

Since when that people start to look at thing more truth, the shape become more flat and geometric, less ornamental on things and buildings, or to say is ‘Minimalizing’.

1905 the beginning of WWII and also the transition from the Fauvism to Cubism era, where everything(the truth) is rendered visible at once to the viewer. An artist turns their ideas around, seeing multiple sides at the same time and dematerialize into geometric form. It’s the first time when people become abstract by making number into statistic form.

These development in architecture can be easily illustrate by an architect “Le courbusier”, it’s in his name. He objectified himself “Le courbusier” artistic everyman.  By making himself to an object, he believe he could build every man home. He approach the mass productions in architecture, when he keep classical style, also involve in context of surrounding. The MASS+SURFACE of houses he build, is telling themselves as they are, the purity of form consists only line and color in painting.

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The major character of his work:

1. Square and Rectangle – an accentuation of form, consists of plane and grid with no bearing wall. These because he wants to keep the pureness of form and to keep the space as open as possible. The outside-in space.
2. He fascinate by the hole in the form, aperture. And also bring art into Architecture.
3. Basic individual need, put people in Grid – He came up with the system of human measurement by abstract himself into one same space similar to Utopian Idea of human is the perfect scale for everything. He compare his idea to automobile in “Toward New Architecture”

Le Corbusier – Villa Savoye, Paris 1928-1931

Past Future-ism | The Metropolis

The idea of producing human by using robot replacement was some kind of modern typical thought that it would help the eternity of human life, working instead of real human, medication, and sometimes to eliminate racism. Refer to post world war, the happening of industrialize idea where people could live life easier by the rules teen that been fix since before the day one man born. How could human have a standard perfect life as much as having mass production in every house hold. During Industrial age, people in America believed if you have a family stay in a house in suburb area with nice car and television, a man working at the office in town, woman work at home to do house work and take care of children. Does this type of though really fit the basic need of our life. Indeed, people can live in it but did they satisfied with the choices they have?

FORM FOLLOW FUNCTION | BAUHAUS

The Flat roof, White plain facade, typology in building was so called the characteristic of Modern architecture and industrial design. Bauhaus which founded by Walter Gropius held a group of avant-garde in Architecture in the industrial age, the period After World War I . They simply came up with an new idea of ‘Starting from zero’ and open as a school to teach this idea publicizing. This majority of famous Bauhaus had become many famous architects and artists which impact today age of Post-modernity.

Once the Bauhaus created new theory, the definition of “Form follow function” born too.It is a principle that the shape of a building or object should primarily based upon its function or purpose. The way design professions approach this, was to appreciate the geometric forms and to limit one design into unity, sameness, and an absence of ornamental (Ornament was criminal : Adolf Loos) only focus on functional use. However ornamental can be functional, if it is for the scale objects, landmark of the building or to attract people. Therefore, the artist said this clearly was Louis Sullivan, he actually said ‘form ever follows function’ but the simpler one usually remembered. For him, this was distill wisdom, the single rule that shall permit of no exception. Thus: