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Modernism's Secret in the East, by Badar Haq.Modernism's Secret in the East. Words. Badar Haq. We had left. Left the crowd behind. Left the people, chasing cars and vendors that offered their services and goods at every traffic light in the city.…View →
Gordon Matta-Clark: Poetic Anarchy, by Juliette Khoo.His views continually conflicted with the tenets of high modernism: the endorsement of science and rationalism, an adherence to rigid form, and the detachment of architecture from the political, social and economic order.…View →
Post-Post Post, by Night(s) of Philosophy.Post-modernism, for example, is a critique, a way of thinking that did not so much come after modernism, as coincided with, responded to, and existed simultaneously with it.…View →
Misleading Memories, by Ieva Davulyte .Looking at the Soviet periodization in Lithuania through the architectural prism, there appear three major aesthetic tendencies (Petrulis, 2006): social realism, industrial Soviet modernism, and diverse manifestations of stylistic searches.…View →
When did we get so Serious as Architects?, by Robert van Overveld.#modernism. #poem. Return to top ↑. More. from. Humour. Links. Interested in becoming a. Pen Pal? Bnieuws. Instagram →. Facebook →. Issuu →. Julianalaan 134. 2628 BL Delft. Navigation. About Bnieuws →. Contact us →. Visit our Archive →. Pen Pals →.…View →
Physical or Intangible?, by Ksenija Onufrijeva.Starting with the modernist movement, the idea of architectural identity as seen in the local values of vernacularity went into processes of deconstruction, and turning into international style.…View →
Brexit and British Architecture, by Amy Young.If we consider the political backgrounds of the renaissance, classicism, neo- classicism, modernism and post-modernism, it is clear that each is driven by varying political and social climates.…View →
I Feel Out of Place, by Tuyen Le.The turning point of today’s architectural representation stemmed from the modernist perception of the human-building relationship.…View →
Who do we Design For?, by Jan Pruszynski.People who have nothing to do with architecture also tend to take photos of those buildings and not of the modernist or brutalist creations, which we, the architects, often prefer. Where does that difference come from?…View →
1 ́000 m² of desire, by Maja Liro .The magazine treated not only women as objects of fantasy and desire, but buildings as well, using modernism as a tool to define a new lifestyle identity for the American male.…View →
On Discomfort, by Jesper-Jay Harrington.At the dawn of the 20th century, the advancement of techno-comfort became a focal point for the pioneers of Modernism, who applied concepts such as the Existenzminimum and the principles of industrial manufacturing towards the development of the house…View →
Bnieuws edition 52/03. Published February 2019.Ranging from modernisms’ atonement in the middle east to examples of entrepreneurship in BK, this issue of bnieuws even looks at how sinister the searching for architecture questions feel.…View →
Writing Urban Places, by Nicole van Roij.For instance, the interest in narratives, by architects such as Bernard Tschumi in 1970's, can be seen as a reaction to the tabula rasa attitude introduced by modernism. At that point the social dimension of the city needed to be re-addressed.…View →
Smooth City, by René Boer.Modernism was also an attempt to control and perfect environments through a complete tabula rasa to create a new kind of perfection.…View →
The Impact of Juicy, Crispy Fried Chicken on Architecture and the Built Environment, by Nathan Kramer.of the colonel, a square with evenly spaced automated ordering machines, and an interior redder than the slaughterhouse the chickens came through.07This formulaic way of architecture has its roots in the technocratic way of designing embedded in the modernist…View →
Bnieuws edition 55/03. Published February 2022.The Modernist movement, for instance, did not seem to account for local identity, prompting the question of: Physical or Intangible?…View →
Brasilia: Reverie Embodied as City, by Lucas Di Gioia.His project is an example of the Brazilian translation of the modernist ideals brought by the charter of Athens, yet incorporating a few postmodern revisionist concepts from Alison and Peter Smithson.…View →
Animal Architecture, by Aimee Baars.Less is more in this modernist architecture. A scrape nest is categorised as a depression or ‘cup’ in the earth, added with material, such as twigs, small pebbles, shell fragments and leaves.…View →
The Freedoms of Suburbia, by Amy Young.It gave way to the cookie cut house, the modernised version of the traditional English cottage that is seen across the majority of the UK.…View →
Be Naked, Be Healthy, Be Well, by Tuyen Le.For instance, modernist architect Peter Behrens was well-known for his revolutionary design of the AEG turbine factory.…View →
By Product, Reversibility, Tangible and Intangible Longevity , by Anouk Fontaine.During the 1980s, idealistic modernists believed architecture would redeem the world and be the solution to various socio-economic issues.…View →
Green & Pleasant Land, by Sam Eadington.considering what the role of public architecture might be in response to contemporary society and culture: seeking to address the complex and particular social and political questions that the projects encompassed, their relation to broader questions of modernity…View →