Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Centre Georges Pompidou. This is the prime manifestations of this approach of High Tech architecture. It is expressed as an inside out, so to speak.
- High Tech maintains the art of exoskeletal buildings like pictured above. And he Pompidou is a maze of color coded air ducts, electrical conduits, and Plexiglas-enclosed escalators.
- The High Tech aspect of design in architecture as a "machine like sometimes compared to pure art.
- Overall, this modern aspect of design interests me the most because it makes something so simple look futuristic and "high tech"
Santiago Calatrava, Lyon-Satolos TGV Terminal. The designers achieves forms suggesting organic forms in nature, like wings on a bird. The terminal actually looks like it could take flight as in the "high tech" aspect of this building is the fact that it could fly away.
I.M. Pei, The Grande Louvre, an exoskeleton of a pyramid of glass. This is majorly modern because it takes form of an ancient form but made completely more modern. This beautiful piece of architecture is placed in the center of old century France.
"High Tech" is a development of late Modernism which celebrates technical innovation and finesse. It's a continuation of that aspect of Modernism that used to be called "structural exhibitionism," which is the intent to astonish the viewer by unprecedented daring in sturctural form, or at least to elicit admiration for structure for its own sake. There was, you recall, also the intent of early Modern architecture to call attention to industrial components. The Bauhaus was "high tech" in this sense, with its repetitive, mass-produced glazing"
-Paul Malo
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