I-Style Architecture

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I-Style Architecture
1.1.3 Architectural Styles David Panythong
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I-Style Architecture

• Also known as International Style.
• 1930s 1950s.
• Usually 2-32 stories.
• Usually businesses, offices, schools, apartments.
• Located around the World.
• Materials
• Glass
• Steel
• Concrete

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I-Style Architecture

• Distinctive Features
• Rectangular Buildings, often with round
  projections
• Smooth surfaces
• Walls of glass
• Uses Ribbon Windows
• Uses gradated Rhythm. A lot of horizontal Lines,
  cool colors- light reflecting from windows.

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Bibliography

• Uithoven, S. (n.d.). Modern Architecture
  International Style. Solar Flare Studios
  Welcome. Retrieved January 25, 2013, from
  http//www.solarflarestudios.com/demosites/archite
  cture/international.htm
• Modern Movements - International Style. (n.d.).
  Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commision.
  Retrieved January 25, 2013, from
  http//www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/com
  munity/modern_movements/2391/international_style/4
  08691
• .