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=**Higth Tech Architecture. **=



 

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media type="file" key="introduction.m4a"   High Tech architecture is an architectural style first conceived in the 1970s. It is based on the idea of utilizing advanced industrial technology and technological elements when designing buildings. High tech buildings usually feature complex steel artwork on their exterior, as well as an exposed support network and heavy use of glass.

High tech building originated in the Western World, derived from the necessity of replacing buildings destroyed during World War II. The post-war era was one of the great technological advances. Technology penetrated society and became common sight – and use- for a large part of the Western world. This level of interaction served as inspiration for many creative architects; if technology could be used for so many things – Space Race, surveillance military purposes, etc. – why couldn’t it be implemented in structural design? In 1978 the book that popularized the name of the style is published. It was called “High Tech: The industrial Style and Source book for the Home” and it contained a lot of images that illustrated a new vision in design. This vision included the use of technological materials from industries in home and residential design. This book showed the design based in the “Late modernism” (the transition between modernism and post-modernism) of the industrial era. That is why High Tech architecture transforms industrial production in an architectural issue and form of inspiration. The authors of the book explained some of the aims of the high tech movement: The first one is to externalize the technological and industrial elements of the building like air ducts, ventilation and wiring, with the use of glass on the facades. High Tech architecture also springs the progression of technology, to achieve an industrial appearance .The industrial elements in the building aren’t meant to by simply aesthetic; they serve a specific purpose in the structural design. Characteristics. The High tech designs are composed by an orderly disposition of the space and the use of pre-fabricated elements. They include the management of the building to show a futuristic structure and a technological concept – hence the name “High Tech”. High tech architecture highlights the free movement of creativity that architects promote, in contrast with the default style of the modernist style, such as Le Corbusier. The order of the building elements is orientated to demonstrate their function while they merge to be dynamic.

The most important representative architectures of this style were Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. There are some examples of their artwork:   Notice the building materials. Rogers and Piano used industrial inspiration to create this structure whose design elements provide in the public a “travel into the future” sensation. 
 *  George Pompidou Cultural Center. Paris, France. (1977) Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.

 Norman Foster made his design a structural game with the pre-fabricated materials of the building. He showed a serious proposal using colors related to the technology and the industry like grays and silvers.
 *  HSBC bank. Shanghai. (1985) Norman Foster.




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