Horizontality.
This paper examines a common directive in the theory of the Modern Movement concerning the vertical surfaces of buildings: the dominance of the horizontal direction over the vertical direction of traditional architecture. While assumed by the protagonists and apologists of the Modern Movement to be...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Architectural Education Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 17 - 27 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2005
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| Sumario: | This paper examines a common directive in the theory of the Modern Movement concerning the vertical surfaces of buildings: the dominance of the horizontal direction over the vertical direction of traditional architecture. While assumed by the protagonists and apologists of the Modern Movement to be a concomitant of technology, this tacit directive is examined here as an aesthetic emblem rather than a rational or functional ideal and is contextualized as a badge of Modernism's identity. |
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