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Garden City
The first major urban planning theorist was Ebenezer Howard, who initiated the garden city movement in 1898 inspired by earlier planned communities built by industrial philanthropists in the countryside. -
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20 TH Century City Planning
Around 1900, theorists began developing urban planning models to mitigate the consequences of the industrial age, by providing citizens, especially factory workers, with healthier environments. -
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International Style
The major figures includes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jacobus Oud, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra and Philip Johnson. -
Dom - Ino House
By Le Corbusier, 3 slaps with six thin reinforced convrete columns. Designed for necesities after 1WW. -
Friedrichstraße skyscraper
Made as a competition proposal for the faceted all glass Friedrichstraße skyscraper, followed by a taller curved version in 1922 named the Glass Skyscraper. -
L´Esprit Nouveau Pavilion
1925 Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, the event which later gave Art Deco its name. Le Corbusier built the pavilion in collaboration with Amédée Ozenfant and with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. -
Ville Savoy
Located in Poissy, the house is a white box poised on rows of slender pylons, surrounded by a horizontal band of windows. The service areas are located under the house. The bedrooms and salons of the house are distributed around a suspended garden; the rooms look both out at the landscape and into the garden. Ville Savoye summed up the five points of architecture. -
Barcelona Chair
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German Pavilion in Barcelona
Desing in less than a year by Mies Van der Rohe, the pavilion for the International Exhibition was supposed to represent the new Weimar Germany: democratic, culturally progressive, prospering, and thoroughly pacifist; a self-portrait through architecture. -
Plan Voisin
L´Espirit Nouveau pavilion exhibited a model of his plan for rebuilding the centre of Paris. He proposed to bulldoze a large area north of the Seine and replace the streets, monuments and houses with 16-story cruciform towers placed within an orthogonal street grid and some green space. For working class. -
Chardigarh
Chandigarh was the first planned city after independence from British rule in 1947. Its emphasis on green space between its roads and buildings drew not only from the Garden City principles requested by the local government but from the architect’s own concept of the Ville Radieuse. -
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Brutalism
It is characterized by block-like structures that often feature bare building materials. Exposed concrete is favored in construction. Began in Europe. The style has been most commonly used in the design of institutional buildings such as libraries, courts, public housing and city halls. -
Brasilia
Lúcio Costa is best known for his plan of Brasília that shaped the Brazilian capital into a monument to utopian modernism.
