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...architecture can reflect relationships between different traditions. Two great buildings, Palladio’s church of the Redentore in Venice and Sinan’s Sokullu Mehmet Pasha mosque in Istanbul illustrate shared approaches to the purpose for which the spaces were designed. This material is taken from The Open University course A216 Art and its histories... Art and...

...architecture?...[Villa Savoye] The machine age The roots of the Modern Movement can be traced back to the profound social and technological changes which characterised the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth. Cities in the western world were expanding. This urbanisation called for a new approach to building- new technologies would have to be...

...architectural history can help us understand where we have come from, and create a base for some lasting changes. Putting the Social into a History of Architecture Architectural historians write histories of buildings. History, though, changes as each generation asks new questions about the past. A social history of architecture emerged during the twentieth century,...

...architectural training. But he did have a strong conviction that the twentieth century would be an age of progress: an age when engineering and technological advances, and new ways of living, would change the world for good. Only architecture was failing to embrace the future, as new buildings continued to ape various historical styles. In 1908, Le Corbusier went to work...

...architecture for half a century, none of the original signatories were from the UK...[Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne] Date: (1928 - 1956) Rethinking Architecture CIAM was formed one year before the building of the German Pavilion in Barcelona. Its foundation marks the determination of Modernist architects to promote and finesse their theories. For nearly...