Sunday, 29 May 2011
Industrialisation Modernism and Architecture.
The Eiffel Tower and the Guggenheim Museum are both very unique structures and have both become famous in their own right. The Eiffel Tower was a risque building for its era and has not only made its designer well known, but it has become a global icon for Paris. The Guggenheim has also put its city Bilbao on the map. It is not quite the worldwide icon as the Eiffel tower, though it has still very much increased the tourism for the city. It also resulted in its architect becoming well respected in the contemporary field. Both designers had the same will to push the architectural boundaries, though one was interested in gaining maximum height and one was interested in the complexity and attention to visual detail. Each design was very complex for the eras they were built. The material used to build the Eiffel Tower is different to what has been used to build the Guggenheim. This is due to their different purposes, as the Eiffel tower was focused on the height, resulting in it needing strong consistent materials to create it. The case of the Guggenheim, materials were considered due to there aesthetic appeal and the efficiency to create curves and contours as well as strength. The variance in materials is also due to what is on hand at the time as building materials were still being discovered at the time the Eiffel tower was built. Both structures are also features at night due to creative lighting, they have been built to be admired and will continue to bring added vibrancy and tourism to there cities in the future to come.
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The Eiffel tower is a great example to compare to the Guggenheim Museum. Both are a celebration of new materials and technology. There are definetly connections between architecture and art. Painters wanted to paint these new structures,which changed the way in which paintings were painted. Traditional forms of art became unconventional for this era of progress and advancement.
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting what you are saying about them pushing the boundaries of construction for there time. I was just thinking about how they were also pushing the boundaries of general visual taste. I guess they were just all round way ahead of their time. It seems like all the great works of any one time were really being made for some other time. I really like your comparison as to why the materials were chosen. For the Museum it was necessary for the visual, the Eiffel Tower it was necessary for the structure. Yet they basically achieved the same thing, they are both visually impacting and structurally impressive.
ReplyDeletei like how you made a connection between how the eiffel tower and the guggenheim museum were architectural structures as well as art. You also mentioned there complexity and attention to detail which emphasizes the idea of modernism well. Both structures explored new materials and technology, pushing away from traditional materials and symbolizing progression and development.
ReplyDeleteI agree with "Caleb Smiler" on we like the way you connection between the Guggenheim Museum and the Eiffel Tower. I also like how you raised the point that they were built at different times and for different reasons yet they still have similarities.
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