Historical Perspectives on Topics in Architecture

Historical Perspectives on Topics in Architecture
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Historical Perspectives on Topics in Architecture

This is a work of architectural minds of a continuous monument on the river that was founded by five Florentine architectures in 1966 which was described as “…of a “new man rejecting the machine age and all that it implies – mass-production”, (Peggy, 1997, p.3).
The notion was that the world was developing at a speed due to globalization. The solution was to live in one mega structure with local cultures of the people striping away and making the world a global village where people all live in one structure and are divvied by different cultures.
The Florentine architects were less interested in replacing the making of tradition of modernism since they seemed to be critiquing what modernism had become. This monumental design indicated that modernization was being tampered with since it was not supporting individualism and privacy; hence mobility was not entirely its periphery and contradicts with the way it had viewed the futurity of modernism.
Historical Perspectives on Topics in Architecture


This architectural design that can represent a housing structure in North Africa, may have been as a result of colonial model where CIAM thinking came to an end and the modal practice of modern architecture coincided to a large extent with the mainstream building programmes that turned the historic cities of North Africa thoroughly upside-down and did not entirely accommodate the desired architectural design due to the incorporation of colonial and native plans.
The house structure is weak due to the type of raw materials used. Despite the making of traditional modernization, the design of the house cannot or may fail to come out as per the desired plan because of the absence of desired raw materials that the colonial subjects cannot access. A traditional design of the same, without the interference of colon...