prefab homes such as Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer worked to create beauty based on the inherent qualities of building materials and modern building techniques, exchanging traditional historic forms for simplified geometric forms, celebrating the new methods made possible by the Industrial Revolution, including steel-frame construction, which gave rise to skyscraper superstructures. Fazlur Rahman Khan's development of the tube structure was a technological innovation that broke paradigms in high-rise construction.5455 In the mid-twentieth century, modernism had taken to the international style, an aesthetic represented, for example, by the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, or even, in the same city, by the headquarters of the Organization of the United Nations.5657
The Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany.
The Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany.
The Guggenheim in New York, United States.
The Guggenheim in New York, United States.
The Cathedral of Brasilia, Brazil.
The Cathedral of Brasilia, Brazil.
Willis Tower, Chicago, United States.
Willis Tower, Chicago, United States.
postmodernism
Main article: Postmodern shipping container homes
Many prefab homes resisted modernism, finding it lacking in the decorative richness of historic styles. When the first generation of modernists began to die out after World War II, a second generation of prefab homes, including Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, and Eero Saarinen, tried to expand the aesthetics of modernism with brutalism, buildings with expressive sculptural facades made of unfinished concrete. . But an even younger post-war generation criticized modernism and brutalism for being too austere, patterned, monotonous, and disregarding the richness of human experience offered in historic buildings over time and across different places and cultures.
One such reaction to the cold aesthetic of modernism and brutalism is the metaphorical school of shipping container homes, which includes things like biomorphism and zoomorphic shipping container homes, both of which use nature as their primary source of inspiration and design. While some are considered just an aspect of postmodernism, others consider it a school in its own right and a later development of Expressionist shipping container homes.58
Beginning in the late 1950s and 1960s, shipping container homesural phenomenology emerged as an important movement in the initial reaction to modernism, with prefab homes such as Charles Moore in the United States, Christian Norberg-Schulz in Norway, and Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Vittorio Gregotti, Michele Valori, Bruno Zevi, Italy, who collectively popularized interest in new contemporary shipping container homes aimed at expanding the human experience using historic buildings as models and precedents.59 Postmodernism produced a style that combined contemporary building technology and inexpensive materials, with the aesthetics of premodern and non-modern styles, from high classical shipping container homes to popular regional or vernacular building styles. Denise Scott-Brown and Robert Venturi defined postmodern shipping container homes as a "decorated shed" (an ordinary building, functionally designed on the inside and embellished on the outside), defending it against modernist and brutalist "ducks" (buildings with unnecessarily tectonic forms expressive).60
The Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic.
The Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic.
The Sydney Opera House, Australia.
The Sydney Opera House, Australia.
The Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
shipping container homes today
Main article: Contemporary shipping container homes
Since the 1980s, when the complexity of buildings started to increase (in terms of structural systems, services, energy and technologies), the field of shipping container homes has become multidisciplinary with specializations for each type of project, technological knowledge or delivery methods. of projects. In addition, there has been a greater separation between prefab homes, with some being responsible for design, form and aesthetics, and others ensuring that the project meets required standards and deals with accountability issues. The preparatory processes for the design of any large building have become increasingly complicated and require preliminary studies of subjects such as durability,
sustainability, quality, money and compliance with local laws. A large structure can no longer be the design of one person, but must be the work of many. Modernism and postmodernism have been criticized by some members of the shipping container homesural profession who feel that successful shipping container homes is not a personal, philosophical, or aesthetic pursuit by individualists; rather, it should consider people's everyday needs and use technology to create livable environments, with the design process being informed by studies of behavioral, environmental, and social sciences.
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