Modernism And The Industrial Revolution

The term 'industrial revolution' was used to describe the period by the 1830s, but modern historians increasingly call this period the 'first industrial revolution', characterized by developments in textiles, iron and steam led by Britain, to differentiate it from a 'second' revolution of the 1850s onwards, characterized by steel, electrics and automobiles led by the US and Germany.

Modernism is a way of realization that the inundating way of the arts since the commencement of the renaissance had run its course. Sculptors has made stone look as authentic as possible, painters had made the flattened out surface of the work’s plane as authentic as possible to compare to the horizon, and Architects had facsimiled the Greek temple and roman arch for everything up to the garden shed, the time of illusion through ascendance of materials was drawing to a terminus, and an incipient era of veraciously and benevolence to materials was arising. Modernism therefore, is both a replication to industrial revolution.

In the medium of painting, the incipient processes provide a more immensely colossal variety of pre-made paints in resalable tubes, in architecture the industrial technologies sanction construction on scales that had recently been infeasible, the great contradiction for architectural denotes is that while the architects utilized the more incipient materials to great effect, the ingenious style of look of buildings throughout the industrial revolution marginally shifted from past pre-industrial styles. If anything authentically, the industrial revolution had made possible their further entrenchment by making the mass engenderment of the handmade details that had further defined pre-industrial styles.

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...t had a dual nature and its overall aesthetic is Gothic renaissance, yet there is a split in the materials predicated upon audience and purport. Actually the train shed itself built of iron and glass as well. To maintain the gothic renaissance theme the shed’s arches the form the shed are pointed, rather over the more traditional round arch classical style. . Industrial materials are utilized for the machine functional, traditional materials are utilized for the human decorative.

To conclude, the era of Modernism – the industrial revolution and the century following after, doesn’t look “modern” when viewed through the lens of architecture. Whilst picking up modern construction methods and to varying extents, materials, it would not be until the early 20th century, and buildings like Behrens’ turbine assembly hall for A.E.G , that architecture would appear modern.