Materials, Techniques and Processes - Architecture

3 important questions on Materials, Techniques and Processes - Architecture

What were the two architectural sides to the Industrial Revolution?

1. The Arts & Crafts movement, away from modernisation and back to the cozy and rural: bricks, clay, wood, etc.
2. Modernism with its machines, hard edges and tall towers: glass, metal, concrete.

What did the invention of steel in architecture mainly allow for?

Skeletal frames and subsequently, glass curtain-wall constructions.

What is what Lloyd calls the "metalness of metal"?

Hard, durable, mechanised, light-reflective, urban.

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