The film “PlayTimes”
by Jacques Tati delivered a strong image of how an ideal Modern world should
be. People of the modern world have the same style of living; wearing same type
of clothes, speaking in similar tones, doing the same gestures. In other word,
the gab of distinction has become narrower. Everything has become mass-production,
and so the human-being. The most obvious element that shows very strong
atmosphere of modernism is the architecture. Identical buildings with rectangular
steel structure and clear glass walls are line up on a street of uncharted Paris.
The film really shows how extreme modernist could be. But in the real world this
truly modernist image isn’t as harsh as in the film.
American
modernist house were American ideal house has clean line, black/white/grey,
honest materials, and a lot of glass. Plus fancy candy-colored domestic car (to
add on a perfect look of American dream household). Meanwhile American
architecture had differed from international style.
Here comes
Expressionism…
Expressionism
is very expressive (as it is named). More extension adding on the real usage,
conflicting the old idea base on idealistic modernist principle, which focus
only on functional elements of architecture. The use of form has become more
exaggerating. Pure geometrical forms are still in use, but twisted. The architecture
has dramatically differed from what Bauhaus or Mies or Le Corbusier had done. Expressionism
is brutally expressing the extreme uses of geometrical forms. It has changed
from using rigid clean line to more fictional style. These architectures are
much soulful than international style.
Expressionism
is more likely to be inspired by many different things comparing to
international style that does not leave trace of the origin of the design. International
style is based on functional use.
Erich
Mendelsohn’s Einstein Tower is expressing the stage of mind of the architect,
since it was designed inside a bunger at war time. It is emotional-based (emotional
disturbing).
Eero Saarinen
designed TWA terminal inspired by flying bird. Inspired from movement and
drama. Bird is also a representative symbol to flying plane.
Dymaxion
home by Buckminster Fuller represented very fictional idea to a modern home. The
aluminum home gives the idea of a prefabricated and mass production like a true
modernist. Because of its choice of material make it more futuristic. But it doesn’t
seem to be very preferable by normal people.
Louis Kahn’s
principle ‘ruins wrapped around buildings’ gave a new look to architecture.
Kahn brought in a lot of ruins and old architecture into his designs. Kahn
avoid using glass walls like typical iconic modernist building, instead he used
voids as openings of his buildings. Kahn’s style is quite brutal; making the
materials becomes more solid and heavy in sight.
Other architecture
in Expressionism movement, Alvar Aalto and Richard Neutra, took the influence
of International style and adapted it with surrounding, and localized it in
Aalto’s case.
Expressionism
somehow inspired more or less by international style. Some might look
completely different from what ideal modernist architecture would be like, but it
still has some trace of it; functionally or visually.
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