Modern architecture

In my fashion course we're studying the topic of architecture, sound weird for fashion? well inspiration is all around you waiting to be found. At first i was the same as you, thinking what are they on about, architecture means nothing to fashion.. etc etc but after looking into it, it does! The number of outcomes are endless. So i'll be doing a few blog posts on architecture which i will then be cooperating into my college project to produce a final garment of my choice.

Modern architecture
Although it sounds like present day architecture with the name modern in the title but actually it started in the late nineteenth century when architects started to rebel against the norm of architectural traditions however it didn't become popular until after WWII. The main goal for this movement was function over form. 

It started in Chicago when they were able to rebuild Chicago school after the Great Chicago fire in 1871, the main architects that fueled the movement where William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Henry Sullivan, Martin Roche, William Holabird, and Daniel Hudson Burnham. Later they were joined by John William Root, these 6 men designed foundations for strong solid structures of skyscrapers and other buildings. All unnecessary detail was eliminated from the designs making it seem more of a social matter/driven by technological and engineering developments.

Examples of modern buildings include New York rockefellers centre (1940), lovell house (1929) and taliesin west (1938-59) among many others.

William Le Baron Jenney -  (25th September 1832 - 15th June 1907)
Family of shipowners
Served as an engineering officer in the civil war
Practised with architecture by designing a swiss chalet with an open plan before Frank Lloyd thought of it
father of skyscrapers

here are some designs inspired by the modern movement:

the sketch on the left was inspired by a 1940's home window and the one on the right was influenced by New York's rockefeller centre.


- Kayla.