11th November
-1760-1960 - modernism?
Present - Post modernism
- Modernise - to make better
-Modern but not modernist
- 1900 Paris was the worlds most modern city
Trottoir Roullant (moving sidewalk) in Paris 1900. A three tiered sidewalk, one level stationary, the seond moved at 4km per hour and the third at 9km per hour
- Urbanisation - from country to city- changed from working the land to city working
- The discovery of the railway meant that world time became standardised i.e GMT
- Enlightenment = period in late 18th century when scientific/philosophical thinking made leaps and bounds. People began to embrace the modern, and tradition and religious spookery shifted for modernism. Secularisation
- Haussmanisation - saw a 'revived' Paris from 1850's onwards when old Paris was knocked down and rebuilt by Haussman in order to hold modernity
- Keiserpanorama - 1883
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Marchel Duchump
- Modernism in design
anti-historicism
truth to materials
form follows function
technology
internationalism
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