Bridges of Modernity

Abstract
The engineer is an inseparable part of the Modern Movement. He has fulfilled its request of working unprejudiced. But he was driven to his most magnificent works by a mental concentration on technique excluding many other influences. Therefore, John Ruskin called the engineer a human beaver. Rarely the ambition of synthetic Modernism to suspend the difference between culture and civilization was converted. In the writer’s opinion, this is no reason to abandon this ambition and engineers should keep up the Modern tradition and continue to work on it.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern bridges, Modern infrastructures, Modern engineering, Architecture and engineering.

Issue 45
Year 2011
Pages 8-11
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/45.A.SFYTYEWF

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Bridges and Infrastructure

Abstract
At present, it is by no means an exaggeration to say that innumerable bridges and infrastructures are able to bring us to the end of the earth, whether these are monuments, scattered in a remote area, recognized or not. situated where mankind intensively has made its effort to extend daily circles of life till the present day. Humans have always been on the move, in primitive ages they went up the hill and down the dale, over and beyond mountains, across streams and wherever obstacles had to be crossed, bridges and roads skilfully came into their hands. Emerging directly on the ground, as fruit of empirical and intuitive knowledge; as comprehensive static and dynamic engineering, state of the art science and creative use of information.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern bridges, Modern infrastructures, Modern engineering.

Issue 45
Year 2011
Pages 4-7
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/45.A.UA6JUGL4

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An Aesthetically Sublime Second Nature

Abstract
The search on Bridges and Infrastructures has to do with a matter of connecting. To launch bridges seems to be a kind of life requirement, as far as it is the way to connect sides, which means improving relations and energies, desire and intelligence. Bridges and Infrastructures have the function of connecting pieces of land and the role of creating a connected world. The matter is to make links and establish a network. In fact, it is a global network made of works of art, which have a physical and material presence balancing between values such as economy and elegance and providing a better life for every man. Seeking audaciously for innovation, research contributes to these large scale structures as it has been improving material capacities and technical creation. It is a huge field that lay infinite possibilities for art and science to perceive changes of social, aesthetic, technical standards and norms.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern bridges, Modern infrastructures, Modern engineering.

Issue 45
Year 2011
Pages 2-3
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/45.A.VWHRNH24

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Ricardo Legorreta. An Architect in Search of Modernity within Tradition

Abstract
Ricardo Legorreta is one of the Mexican contemporary architects who have garnered the most recognition; only in 2011 he was distinguished as Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, and the Praemium Imperiale in Japan. One year before, on August 27 at the docomomo Conference held in Mexico City, he gave a memorable Keynote Speech on the main figures of the Modern Movement in Mexico, José Villagrán and Luis Barragán, that the attendants treasured in their memories.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Ricardo Legorreta, Mexican modern architecture.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 90-91
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.0NTAVNJ1

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Dinamo Stadium, Moscow, 1927-1936, by Aleksandr Langman and Leonid Cherikover

Abstract
In February 10, 2012 the demolition of the façade walls of the cultural heritage building of regional significance Dinamo Stadium got underway (Leningrandsky Prospect, 36). There is no need to prove the value of the building which was constructed in two stages in 1927-1936 upon the project of L. Cherikover and A. Langman. In 1987 the Stadium was placed under special protection of the state.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Dinamo Stadium, Aleksandr Langman, Leonid Cherikover, Moscow modern architecture, Modern stadiums.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 89
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.U61LS8V3

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Kyoto Kaikan, Kyoto, 1960, by Kunio Mayekawa

Abstract
In the historic city of Kyoto, located inside Okazaki Park across from the Heian Jingu Shinto shrines, sits a representative Modern architectural heritage, Kyoto Kaikan. However, today, it faces an imminent threat of destructive alteration, thus calling attention for the Heritage Alert at the ICOMOS ISC20C.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Kyoto Kaikan, Kunio Mayekawa, Kyoto modern architecture, Modern cultural complexes.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 88
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.VG5WQT2V

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Sandoz Headquarters – Office Complex Novartis, Rueil-Malmaison, 1962-1968, by Martin Burckhardt and Bernard-Henri Zehrfuss

Abstract
Agnès Cailliau, Chair of docomomo France alerted docomomo International that the original Headquarters and Laboratories of Sandoz were going to be completely demolished. After writing letters to the Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison and to Novarti’s President, the pharmaceutical company answered that their previous Basel intervention was an example of their care for heritage, that the structure of the building in Rueil-Malmaison had not aged well and did not live up to the company’s standards and that the project of architect Patrick Berger was in line with their heritage policy.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Sandoz Headquarters and Laboratories, Martin Burckhardt, Bernard Zehrfuss, Swiss modern architecture.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 87
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.3R27AE68

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Factory Kitchen, Samara, 1931, by Ekaterina Maksimova

Abstract
The Maslennikov factory canteen, also known as the Fabrika Kukhnya or Factory Kitchen, was a canteen producing meals on industrial scale, a vital typology for the early Soviet urbanism. Factory Kitchen in Samara belonged to the Maslennikov Factory. The building is absolutely unique in its plan in the shape of a hummer-and cycle, symbol of the union of the working people. The "hummer" held the kitchen and storage, and the "cycle" was occupied by dinner-halls.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Factory Kitchen, Ekaterina Maksimova, Modern industrial buildings, Soviet modern architecture.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 86
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.QUCL4MZ5

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Svetlovodsk: Realized Urban Utopia of the USSR. A Revitalization Strategy for the Small Post-Soviet Monocity

Abstract
The article is devoted to one of the most pressing problems for the former Soviet Union - the problem of survival and development of the small mono–industry towns. The aim of this work is the actualization of the problem of survival and development of the small post–Soviet towns - the unique urban artifacts of the Soviet industrial utopia. Svetlovodsk that was created in the 60’s of the twentieth century during ‘Khrushchev’s Thaw’ gave the example for the analysis of the specificity of small towns in Ukraine. The strategy of the development of this type of towns has been described in the article.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Soviet mono-industry towns, Soviet industrial utopia, Svetlovodsk, Urban rehabilitation strategies.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 80-82
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.LZUFCVT3

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ODAM and the Construction of a Modern Spirit

Abstract
The ODAM as divulger of modern architecture in Porto comprehends from the scope of teaching, professional practice, to its internationalization, as attests the participation of its members in CIAM´s congresses from 1951. Its production, written manifestos, projects and builds, reveal its universal character through the deployment of Modern spirit, in the statement of a collective conscience of architectural practice, but also, affirms its local condition as its differentiator value. This retrospective and critical reading of the specific ODAM discourse as part of broader context that characterizes Modern Architecture (re)affirms its character simultaneously universal and singular.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern interior design, Furniture modern design, Modern living, ODAM, Portuguese modern architecture.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 76-79
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.2I9RX69W

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