perspective of Christian Norberg Schulz on modernism in architecture

1. INTENTIONS IN ARCHITECTURE
CHRISTIAN NORBERG-SHULZ

2. • A REACTION AGAINST MODERNISM
• PERCEPTION OF FORMS IN ARCHITECTURE-CULTURAL BASIS
• MEANING OF FORMS IN ARCHITECTURE IS THE RESULT OF CULTURAL
INTENTIONS
• ARCHITECTS SHOULD HAVE TO WORK WITH IN THE NETWORK OF
THOSE INTENTIONS

3. • REVISION OF AESTHETIC DIMENSION IN ARCHITECTURE ?
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4. • HOW TO MAKE ARCHITECTURE A SENSITIVE MEDIUM ?
• BUILDING FORM SHOULD BE ACCORDING TO FUNCTION BUT
MAINTAINING A VISUAL ORDER. HOW ?
• FORMAL DIFFERENTIATION FOR FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCES ?
• DIFFERENTIATION SHOULD BE SYMBOLISING ?

5. • DEFINITION OF OUR BUILDING TASKS AND THE MEANS OF THEIR
SOLUTION ?
• WHAT PURPOSE ARCHITECTURE AS A HUMAN PRODUCT ?
• HOW DOES ARCHITECTURE INFLUENCE US ?
• WHY HAS A BUILDING FROM A PARTICULAR PERIOD HAS A PARTICULAR
FORM ?

6. • RELATION BETWEEN TASK AND SOLUTION
• AM EMBEDDED METHOD OF RELATIONS
• SOLUTION OF CONCRETE PROBLEMS
• FACALITATION IN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

7. • ADAPTATION IN ARCHITECTURE
• CONSERAVATION OF STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLES OF TRADITIONS
RATHER THAN ITS MOTIVES
• PRIMARY AND SECONDARY WHOLES – FUNCTION AND VISUALS
• SYMBOL SYSTEM ADAPTION

8. • TRADITION IN MODERN ASPECTS
• A MODERN MOVEMENT CAN BE A TRUE TRADITION
• HOSTORICAL CONTINUITY DOESN’T MEAN TO BE BORROWED
• HUMAN VALUES ARE CONQUERED IN NEW WAYS

9. • MODERN FORMS ARE EXPERIMENTS
• FIGHT AGAINST BORROWED MOTIVES
• NEVER BEEN ORDERD
• NOT A FORMAL LANGUAGE
• MODERN FORMS