Lesson 03 : Factors Influencing The Dwelling Forms In India
Industrialization And Technological Advancement
During the last two decades of the twentieth century and into the new millennium, the field of architecture saw the rise of specializations in building design.
Architects worked to create beauty based on the inherent qualities of building materials and modern construction techniques, trading traditional historic forms for simplified geometric forms, celebrating the new means and methods made possible by the Industrial Revolution, including steel-frame construction, which gave birth to high-rise superstructures.
The complexity of buildings began to increase in terms of structural systems, services, energy and technologies.
The approach of the Modern architects was to reduce buildings to pure forms, removing historical references and ornament in favor of functionalist details.
Buildings that displayed their construction and structure, exposing steel beams and concrete surfaces instead of hiding them behind traditional forms, were seen as beautiful in their own right.
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