Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow International Style: Carry floors on columns so plan and facade both stay free.
- Type
- Set in International Style's manner (Align sans serif signs to the column grid, flush with the wall.), and let Latin American Modernism's lettering (Sink signage into the wall color and let shadow make it readable) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in International Style's material (Steel and concrete frame, white rendered planes, large sheets of glass.); bring in exactly one thing from Latin American Modernism (Rough plaster in one vivid color, with the hour's light calculated in).
- Colour
- Build on #eeece5, #9ca3a5, #252729 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Modern Architecture, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- International Style A white box alone misses the structure, free plan, industrial materials and social program, and ornament stripped without tuned proportion and detail reads as cheapness, leaving openings with no reason for their position.
- Latin American Modernism Painting walls in vivid color without designing openings and shadow makes the color glare evenly, giving loudness instead of the intended stillness.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from International Style (Style, 1920s–1960s) and its accent from Latin American Modernism (Style, 1940s–1980s). Structural cues: Rectangular volumes; Glass planes; No ornament; The free plan. Accent cues, used sparingly: Walls of vivid color; Staged light and water; Thick walls and stillness; Modernism rooted in place. Composition: Carry floors on columns so plan and facade both stay free.. Type and lettering: Align sans serif signs to the column grid, flush with the wall.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Rough plaster in one vivid color, with the hour's light calculated in. Mood: Trust, Calm, Futurism, Exhilaration, Intimacy. Color: build on #eeece5, #9ca3a5, #252729 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- International Style 1920s–1960s / Style / Modern Architecture
Strips ornament and aims at a universal architectural language crossing borders: the box, the free plan, steel, concrete and glass.
- Latin American Modernism 1940s–1980s / Style / Modern Architecture
Latin American modern architecture rewrote the International Style in local color, light and feeling. Barragán's colored walls and water, and Niemeyer's curves, proved that modern building too could carry the emotion of a place.
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