High-Tech in the Home

High-tech style isn't just for the outside of a building; it's also hugely popular indoors as well.

The style stresses an industrial look. Pipes can be worked into the decor of the home, instead of hidden in a cupboard or closet. Elements of a high-tech room can include factory lighting; partial room dividers made of glass bricks; warehouse or hospital shelving[35] painted in flamboyant colors; work benches for countertops[36]; and office chairs for furniture. Steel appliances and even dishes can accent the style, as can geometric patterns in floors and walls.

Significance

High-tech style came about when architects and designers were looking for a way to liven up modern architecture. In many places, any sort of modern architecture had been replaced with economy buildings, as well as homes, apartment buildings and office buildings that appeared to have been made from a mold[37]. The high-tech style not only showed a rebellious attitude on the part designers who were willing to try something completely different, but also displayed impressive faith in what was to come. Technological advances were on everyone's mind, and this high-tech style leaned away from traditional architecture and more toward science fiction and the world of tomorrow.

Answer the questions

1) When did the high-tech style appear?

2) What are the typical features of this style?

3) What are the most famous architectural models constructed in this style?

4) What are the main characteristics of high-tech interior?

Use the answers from this exercise, the phrases from ex.3, p.7 and retell the text “High-tech style”

3. Use the clichés from ex. 5, p. 14 and write the retelling of the text “High-tech style”

Text 4

Read and retell the text

Futurism

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20^th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Futurists practiced in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy.

Key figures of the movement include the Italians Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, Antonio Sant’Elia, Tullio Crali and Luigi Russolo, and the Russians Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Vladimir Mayakovsky. Important works include its seminal piece of the literature, Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurism, as well as Boccioni’s sculpture, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, and Balla’s painting, Abstract Speed + Sound (pictured). Futurism influenced art movements such as Art Deco, Constructivism, Surrealism, Dada[38], and to a greater degree, Rayonism[39] and Vorticism[40].

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TYPES OF DESIGN

Part I

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