Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered

by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized

European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements
in music, literature and architecture.
In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted forminstead of depicting objects
from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude
of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.
Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing
a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes
interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space,
one of cubism's distinct characteristics.

A direct link between Cubist Art and Cubist Architecture does

not exist. However both share the same characteristic of
dealing with geometrical shapes and forms. Often Cubist
Artists painted abstract objects, as dissected geometrical
shapes. Often buildings, based on Cubist principles, are
designed as geometrical interlocking shapes or quite simply as
a single geometrical shape.

Each of the buildings has a basic geometrical design, often a

cuboids shape. Simplicity is often an overriding characteristic.
Modern materials have been used, often materials not
normally used in the construction of buildings.
The buildings have sharp, clean lines, ensuring that the
building is viewed in perspective with ease.
The windows have a cube / rectangular form and do not
necessarily line up with each other, as in traditional /
conventional buildings

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Corbusier
Josef Hoffman
Walter Gropius

He was a Swiss-born architect,

designer, urbanist, writer and also
painter.
His career spanned 8 decades, with
his buildings constructed
throughout central Europe, India,
Russia, and one each in North and
South America.

Situated at Poissy, outside of

Paris.
The pilotis, or ground-level
supporting columns, elevate
the building from the damp
earth allowing the garden to
flow beneath.
Horizontal windows provide
even illumination and
ventilation.
The freely-designed facade,
unconstrained by load-bearing
considerations, consists of a
thin skin of wall and windows.

A flat roof terrace reclaims the area of the building site for
domestic purposes, including a garden area.
The free plan, made possible by the elimination of loadbearing walls, consists of partitions placed where they are
needed without regard for those on adjoining levels.

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The shell does not terminate in a horizontal but in an oblique

section which shall receive a metallic framework (aluminum).
This framework will become a veritable physical laboratory
destined to ensure the interplay of natural lighting, artificial
lighting, ventilation and acoustic-electronic mechanisms.
One of the interesting point is the adoption of a circular form
for the hall which seems contrary to the development of good
acoustics.
The Assembly Hall is made in a hyperbolic shell with an
average thickness of 15 cm, constant throughout its surface,
resulting in a very low cost and a minimum of weight.

Josef Hoffmann was an Austrian

architect and designer of consumer
goods.
Hoffmann studied at the Higher State
Crafts School in Brno.

Four green figures at top by

sculptures,& other craft work
inside the building.
It contain commissioned
paintings by Gustav Klimt in
dinning room.
Marble clad facade.

He was a German
architect and founder of
Bauhaus who along with
Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe and Le
Corbusier, is widely
regarded as one of the
pioneering masters of
modern architecture.

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ENTRANCE

Sir Banister Fletcher's a history of

architecture.
Twentieth century architecture: a visual
history
Story of architecture
Dissertation: cubism by Priyanka Joshi
History of arts
www.wikipedia.com
www.artyfactory.com
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