When Did Modern Architecture Actually Begin? | ARTiculations

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Thank you so much!! I really appreciate that you put on link references of the video in the description box, i have an assignment in which I have to explain the impact of glass and steel in modern architecture and this video really covered it all. I couldn't wait to relay this information with my class soon, so thanks again for putting this video together♡♡🤧

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Nice video, and very interesting. Just one comment: iron and steel structures are actually less fire resistant than timber, paradoxically. Iron is not combustible, but looses strenght with temperature and is a very good thermal conductor. Which means that in a fire, iron structures will colapse quickly. Timber structures burn from outside to inside, the outside layer carbonizes and carbonization progreses towards the core, but it takes longer to colapse than bare iron. Construction codes allow timber structures to be "naked" while metal structures us be painted with fire-resistant paint or encased in concrete . The Crystal Palace, for example, was destroyed in a fire.

Thank you so much for putting the names and dates for the images in your video. It's so helpful!

Very good video! I love the touches on urban planning. I foresee an epic collab with City Beautiful sometime in the future!

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To learn more about the Crystal Palace, please check out my friend Amor Sciendi's awesome video about it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNUrMS4N_cM

Art Deco was probably the last genre of architecture that gave fully an equal measure to function of building and aesthetics

Seeing images of the crystal palace invariably brings me to tears. I just want to be there! Amazing.

I really love your videos, they give such a great overview over various topics and make me think about the world around me differently. Thank you for the work you put it. You always manage to make the videos interesting, so even though I never was particularly interested in modernism I know I will be after watching the video! // Update: I am now!

Love this. Linking architecture to other developments in the 20th century is so interesting. I love the brief analysis of the Bauhaus as well. If you ever want to get together for a collaboration to expand on it, I feel like I need an excuse to immerse myself more in that philosopher. To answer the question at the end of the video: I'll go with "the spread of its ideas" or at least the spread of a recognized visual aesthetic, even if it there are diverse pieces of that aesthetic that don't necessarily fit with each other.

Well done, comprehensive and yet short!

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Fascinating video! you ask such great questions. I think Modernism probably (technically) started with the Crystal Palace,...but really took hold internationally with Bauhaus. They picked up what was possible materially with glass and steel and just ran with it! :) I love this channel, I'm so happy I found you.

I watched the film, Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect recently. It's definitely worth adding on your list of films to watch.

I would say that architectural movements are a bit like genres in fiction and the like; they exist once people begin deliberately making examples of them. E.g., for fantasy literature, there's a point near the end of the 19th century when people started realizing that there was a distinct genre forming that was separate from (if directly linked to) stories that merely had elements of "the fantastic" in them. Once people set out to start writing in that nascent genre, those new writings were fantasy. This does produce a sort of chicken-and-egg problem, but transition periods are a thing and we shouldn't expect clear and unambiguous lines. In the architectural case, I'd say that the work prior to the essay you referenced was proto-Modern, driven by reasons other than imitating a discrete movement, but the essay allowed those that came after it to work deliberately in that new mode.

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I think you did a great job identifying some of the key components; technology, opportunity, and acceptance. For me, the most interesting aspect is the theory that developed a movement, and how that movement fits into history. I like to look at the philosophy, and scientific advancements as well as literature. It all goes hand in hand.