ARC131H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wainwright Building, Reliance Building, Gustave Eiffel

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1900s - shifts from europe to north america. Architecture: made by professionals with cultural intentions, very small part of the built environment (around 5%). Strong emphasis on architecture especially in 1800s in western. Around 1900, architectural concepts are brought over to north. 1950 - world war 2, american, latin america, japan. Australia, japan, latin america on the rise while. Narrative of architecture is as much about storytelling as architecture, different perspectives on the built environment. No one has been able to tell the whole story of architecture and so it is very biased. Bias is very european/north american in nature, architectural history is written with an over-attention on europe. 1850: crystal palace (starting point for modern architecture) Architecture is based on european ideology/concepts - before mechanization of agriculture, 8 people to feed 10. Scientific revolution - james watt steam engine. Industrial revolution - james howe carse, england - 1831. French revolution - beggining of new way of thinking about society,

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