The Familistère. An avant-garde nineteenth-century housing estate.
1859. The Industrial Revolution caused a massive population shift from the country to the towns. The new urban proletariat lived in extremely insalubrious conditions. Jean-Baptiste André Godin, the founder of the Familistère, purchased six hectares of land nestled in a bend of the River Oise to build The Familistère in Guise for improving workers’ life.
Godin was effected by Fourier and accomplished his phalanstère or phalanstery which was a small community of people who lived and worked together in the same building. The Familistère was a town within a town, and it offered its working class population over 300 comfortable apartments. Finally, in 1870, the last of the residential wings was completed, thirteen years after the central block. Godin’s estate made him a pioneer of modern town planning.
Architecture 04 of 23 Nemausus
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Nemausus
由法國建築師 Jean Nouvel 設計的Nemausus 社會住宅於1987年落成,它對工業材料的應用在當時可以說是很激進的(摺疊車庫門的陽台、金屬製品的鋪面、鋁製的開放樓梯),但卻並非是刻意追求前衛而這樣做。
Architecture 05 of 23 The Georges Pompidou Centre
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The Georges Pompidou Centre 龐畢度中心
倫佐‧皮亞諾 Renzo Piano 1937- (1998年獲得普立茲克建築獎)
理查‧羅傑斯 Richard Rogers 1933- (2007年獲得普立茲克建築獎)
The headquarters of the Royal and Imperial Post Office Savings Bank in Vienna was built by Otto Wagner between 1903 and 1906. Wagner was a well-established, 50-year old architect, respected by High Society. The architecture was built on the Ringstrasse, the very symbol of Imperial Vienna and is the only modern building on this road.
The bank is huge compared with other buildings on the Ringstrasse. However, the brutal facade would not upset the balance of the rest of the buildings on the avenue. How did Wagner balance the imbalance?
The architectural principles which Wagner insisted from inner decoration to outer facade was “simplicity”.
“The modern eye has lost its perspective for the small and intimate.” Wagner said,” It has grown used to long straight lines, wide surfaces, and large masses, which need limited work and simple shapes.”
In this episode, we could realize how architect made architecture a true reflection of our time and the military precision of modern life.
Architecture 07 of 23 Frank Lloyd Wright Johnson Wax Adminis
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Frank Lloyd Wright Johnson Wax Administrative Building 嬌生公司總部