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 Purism's lettering (A light geometric sans aligned to the horizontals, held to two sizes) 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 Purism (Greys and ochres with a little blue, surfaces painted evenly and matte).
- Colour
- Build on #eeece5, #9ca3a5, #252729 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
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.
- Purism Bringing anecdote or ornament back turns the objects from standardized types into picturesque still lifes, and the clarity of the machine age is lost.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from International Style (Style, 1920s–1960s) and its accent from Purism (Style, 1918–1925). Structural cues: Rectangular volumes; Glass planes; No ornament; The free plan. Accent cues, used sparingly: Silhouettes of standardised everyday objects; Compositions built on horizontals and verticals; A restrained number of colours; Contour lines of overlapping forms. 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: Greys and ochres with a little blue, surfaces painted evenly and matte. Mood: Trust, Calm, Futurism. 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.
- Purism 1918–1925 / Style / Modern Design Movements
A movement that attacked Cubism's drift into decoration and called for a return to forms fit for the machine age. Standardized objets-types such as bottles, glasses and guitars are painted within a horizontal-vertical order and a restrained palette. Through the journal L'Esprit Nouveau it became a norm for modern architecture and graphics.
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