Late-Modern was the last phase of Modern Design, a phase of contrasts and paradoxes, technological and social changes including Consumism and Minimalism, Hippie counter culture.
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Late Modern Architecture Characteristics
Late modern architecture features horizontally oriented lines with ribbon windows; large areas of the buildings may be also without windows. The use of industrial materials like concrete is massive. Artists use to conceive dramatic sculptural display of building’s volumes, with no ornaments all over the edifice.Gallaratese Quarter II, byAldo Rossiwas inspired by the stepping forms and rigid spatial organization of Roman examples like Trajan’s Market. All the exposed elements of the building are structural, with no ornamentation.
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Minimalism Today: The House of Stone
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British architect John Pawson in collaboration with Salvatori and lighting specialists KKDC presented their work at the celebrated Think Tank Exhibition, Milan. The installation named “House of Stone” was a minimal, house shaped, architectural structure made from recycled stone, cut muticulously.
KKDC lighting specialists created a disruptive MoMo LED light source to illuminate the house by night, making the cuts brilliant beams underlining the texture of the stone and minimal architecture.
Late Modern Interior design
The furniture industry have had important technological achievements in manufacturing techniques.Arne Jacobsen, for example, a Danish architect, projected furniture designs that have become distinctive symbols of the late modern period, specifically theAnt chairand theEgg chair. However,Jacobsen’s Series 7 Chair, because of high retail sales, is famous to be one of the most diffused chairs ever created.
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TheCastiglioni brotherscreated a style that fuses together the respect for forms in everyday objects with an interest in functionality.
In 1962 they designed theArco Floor Lampwhich was created after a typical street light. The lamp’s base was made of marble, heavy enough to project the light source up and out eight feet.
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Info source:
http://livingmodernismstudio.blogspot.it/2012/01/mid-to-late-century-modernism-in.html
http://www.historicdenver.org/resources/late-modernism/
http://www.archdaily.com/867165/ad-classics-gallaratese-quarter-milan-aldo-rossi-carlo-aymonino
