Stripped Classicism
ストリップト・クラシシズム / 1920s–1950s / Style / Modern Architecture
从古典建筑上只削去装饰，仅留下比例、轴线与柱列律动的官厅与纪念建筑样式。明明没有装饰却仍能被读作古典，这成了言说权威的低成本手段。作为极简与威压同居的例子而重要。
削去装饰的柱列律动 / 强烈的轴线与对称 / 石材的平滑表面 / 没有巨大开口的墙面
辞典词条
- 适用场景
- 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
- 字体
- Incised roman capitals, widely spaced, centred on the axis and stated once only.
- 版面
- Bilateral symmetry with the entrance on the axis, a tall base, an unbroken wall and a heavy uninterrupted cornice line.
- 材料
- Large ashlar limestone or granite, honed flat, with joints fine enough that the wall reads as one continuous surface.
- 注意
- 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.
- 延伸阅读
- Interwar government architecture / Proportion as an expression of authority / The turns in its reputation after the war