Stripped Classicism
ストリップト・クラシシズム / 1920s–1950s / Style / Modern Architecture
Style des bâtiments officiels et commémoratifs qui dépouille le classicisme de tout ornement et n'en garde que la proportion, l'axe et le rythme des supports. Rester lisible comme classique sans porter d'ornement en fit un moyen peu coûteux d'énoncer l'autorité. Important comme cas où cohabitent le minimal et l'intimidation.
Rythme de colonnes dépouillées d'ornement / Axes marqués et symétrie / Parements de pierre lisses / Murs sans grandes ouvertures
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- Institutional identity for courts, banks and archives, where permanence has to be signalled with almost no elements · A cautionary reference in brand work: the devices that read as timeless minimalism are the same ones that read as state power
- Typographie
- Incised roman capitals, widely spaced, centred on the axis and stated once only.
- Composition
- Bilateral symmetry with the entrance on the axis, a tall base, an unbroken wall and a heavy uninterrupted cornice line.
- Matière
- Large ashlar limestone or granite, honed flat, with joints fine enough that the wall reads as one continuous surface.
- Précaution
- Reaching for it because it looks austere and expensive: the symmetry and the blank wall make a claim of authority whether or not you intended one.
- Pour approfondir
- Interwar government architecture / Proportion as an expression of authority / The turns in its reputation after the war