This post is based on the text Globalization of Modern Architecture: The Impact of Politics, Economics and Social Change on Architecture and Urban Design since 1990, by Adam, Robert (2012). [electronic resource] (pp. 7-29)
This text talks about how civilizations spread across the world and how it was documented by philosophers and academics. They also made links between the settlements where people had moved from other areas and their architecture. This was the beginning of globalization.
The first modern global era was at the end of the 19th century and has grown since then thanks to improving communications such as telephones, email and most importantly, the internet.
I think that this reading is a good background and base for the rest of the year as it has introduced some of the modern movements which will be covered and some which we will have to research ourselves. I think that it has helped me to understand how architecture has developed and moved around the world over the last centuries.
This text talks about how civilizations spread across the world and how it was documented by philosophers and academics. They also made links between the settlements where people had moved from other areas and their architecture. This was the beginning of globalization.
The first modern global era was at the end of the 19th century and has grown since then thanks to improving communications such as telephones, email and most importantly, the internet.
I think that this reading is a good background and base for the rest of the year as it has introduced some of the modern movements which will be covered and some which we will have to research ourselves. I think that it has helped me to understand how architecture has developed and moved around the world over the last centuries.