Coming into Modernism

            From the last history class we have studied further into the development of modernism and into the works of Le Corbusier. In the lecture, it have been shown the interconnectivity of art and architecture. Even though it seems that art and architecture is a whole different field of study, art is made for visual expression while architecture is for people to live or work in, but the two somehow grow along side by side into Modernism and retrieving its form.

            We have seen beautiful realistic paintings in the past history in the Classic and Renaissance periods, but the trend in Modernism would be to reduce everything to its basic form like what Picasso and other Cubist had in mind. In my opinion, cubist may have its affects into the designs of architecture in its conceptual thinking of reducing, but the art pieces that really affected architecture would be the paintings from the De Stijl movement. Cubism may have reduced its form, but if we were to use those forms into the building, it would be mere impossible. On the other hand, if we considered the paintings by the De Stijl movement, we can see the form and grids that are very similar to building structures of the Modernism age, or working house aesthetics.

            Even though coming from different countries, we could still see how the De Stijl have affected even the most important architect of the world, Le Corbusier. In Unite d’ Habitation, we could see the resemblence of the painting by the De Stijl movement in the façade, both in color and in form. It was a matter of proportion, symmetry, and the hierarchy of shapes, size, and it format. Coming to Le Corbusier, we could see that his later buildings still kept its shape and form of these grid line cubes where he showed it in his masterpiece, Villa Savoye. The pilotis were in grid form, and the main structure of the house was somewhat a rectangle.

            Maybe these form had the best interconnectivity between art and architecture. Since architecture had a wider scope in which they had to create functions for space, but in studying history, our analysis may connect the fields of study together.