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