FIVE PILLARS OF THE SOCIO-ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS OF MODERNISM: REFLECTIONS ON THE HERITAGE OF MODERNISTIC IDEAS IN HOUSING ARCHITECTURE  

Ada Kwiatkowska

Abstract 

Contemporary housing architecture is based on the theoretical ideas and on the architectural heritage of modernism. In the broad stream of socio-architectural ideas of the modernism, it is possible to distinguish five fundamental trends, which define the directions of the searching for modern housing patterns, such as: futurism, modernistic avant-garde, purism, structuralism and universalism. These trends are the starting point of description of their influence on the further development of housing architecture and the cause of reflections on the socio-architectural utopia - from futurism to alterglobalism, on the egalitarianism - from the avant-garde to art-guerillas, on the esthetical idealism - from utilitarianism to minimalism, on the structural order - from constructivism to deconstruction and on techno-esthetics - from high- to low-tech in the housing architecture.

Article:

Kwiatkowska, Ada, Piec filarow mysli spoleczno-architektonicznej modernizmu (Five Pillars of the Socio-Architectural ideas of Modersnim), Architectus, 2006, no 2, pp.61-67.

(photos by Ada Kwiatkowska)

Modernistic housing architecture, Betondorp, Amsterdam, 1923-28

Neo-modernistic housing architecture, Aarhus, 1994-98

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