Architectural Syles

DECONSTRUCTIVISM 

                  -is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s

                  -It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface

                   or skin, non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture,  such as structure and envelope. 

Ray and Maria Stata centre in MIT

Dutch Insurance company (Dancing Building / Fred and Ginger)

BLOBITECTURE

-This particular style was dominant in the mid-1990s. It is recognizable because of the use of unusual ‘blob-like’ shapes in the structure.

Aqua Tower in Chicago 

by Jeanne Gang, of Studio Gang Architect

the entrance building to the admirant in eindhoven, the netherlands by Massimiliano Fuksas

MINIMALISM

-no ornamentation

-honest

Italian home architecture designed by Andrea Oliva from Cittaarchitettura

Minimalism in Spain by Maria Castelló

High-tech

  appeared as a revamped modernism, an extension of those previous ideas aided by even more advances in technological achievements. 

The Lloyd's Building (1978-86) by Richard Rogers and Partners, City of London

Cybertecture Egg

MODERNISM

Reversible Destiny Lofts, located in Tokyo, Japan, and designed by the innovative architects at New-York-based Arakawa & Gins

Dupli.Casa House by J. MAYER H. Architects

BRUTALISM

William Pereira’s Geisel Library of Brutalism

A housing complex in Montreal by Moshe Safdie

GREEN ARCHITECTURE

-is a general term that describes environmentally conscious design techniques in the field of architecture

FUTURISTIC


-Is an early-20th century form of architecture characterized by anti-historicism and long horizontal lines suggesting speed, motion and urgency.

Nuragic & Contemporary Art Museum, Cagliari, Italy 

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