MODERNISM

REBULADO, FRANCES DIANNE M.

 WHAT IS MODERNISM?
Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early
decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and
values of modern industrial life.

• MECHANIZATION
• FUNCTIONALITY
• ORDER
• ZONING
VILLE RADIEUSE (THE RADIANT CITY) BY LE CORBUSIER
Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) is an
unrealized urban masterplan by Le
Corbusier.

First presented in 1924 and published in

a book of the same name in 1933.

Designed to contain effective means of

transportation, as well as an abundance
of green space and sunlight.

Extensive influence on modern urban

planning.
Le Corbusier’s plan stood the notion of zoning:

• Commercial
• Business
• Entertainment
• Residential areas

o “it was to be built on nothing less than the

grounds of demolished vernacular European
cities”

o high-density skyscrapers, spread across a vast

green area and arranged in a Cartesian grid

o “living machine”
• Housing / “Unités”
• Fifty (50) meters = 2,700 inhabitats
• Parks between Unites

• PARIS
• ANTWERP
• MOSCOW
• ALGIERS
• MOROCCO
• Unité d'Habitation in Marseille (1952) - contained 337 apartments in a single
building, along with public facilities on the roof and ground floor.
• Became very influential in 20th century modernism and contemporary
residential design in Europe.
• A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or
nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.
 SIR PATRICK GEDDES

- Started Regional City Movement

- He introduced the concept of "region"

to architecture and planning and coined
the term "conurbation“
THE VALLEY SECTION
The term "conurbation" was coined
The valley section depicts an ideal regional- in 1915 by Patrick Geddes in his
urban condition, whereas the Notation of book Cities In Evolution.
Life embodies concrete architectural
proposals how to realise that ideal condition.
TEL-AVIV (ISRAEL)

• Designed in 1925-1929 by Sir Patrick Geddes

and it was the first city plan of Tel-Aviv

• The area of Tel Aviv originally planned by

Geddes makes up approximately 7.5% of the
current day municipality of Tel Aviv and is now
known as Tel Aviv’s “Old North”
 NEW TOWNS
The new town movement refers to towns that were built after World War II
PLANS AND LEGISLATION

1943 COUNTY OF LONDON PLAN:

recognized that displacement of population
and employment was necessary if the city
was to be rebuilt at a desirable density.
1944 GREATER LONDON PLAN: suggested
that over one million people would need to
be displaced into a mixture of satellite
suburbs, existing rural towns, and new
towns.
1946 NEW TOWNS ACT & 1947 TOWN AND
COUNTRY PLANNING ACT: created a
revolutionary “machinery for positive town
construction”.
COUNTY OF LONDON PLAN 1943

The County of London Plan was

prepared for the London County
Council in 1943 by Sir Leslie Patrick
Abercrombie (1879–1957) and John
Henry Forshaw (1895–1973)

RING ROADS: construction would have

involved considerable disruption, even
through parts of the city damaged by
bombs, and the roads were not built,
but the "C Ring" (the third ring out from
the city centre) was to include what is
now the South Circular Road.
GREATER LONDON PLAN 1944
The Greater of London Plan of 1944 was
developed by Sir Leslie Patrick
Abercrombie (1879-1957).

The plan was based around five main

issues facing London at the time:
population growth, housing,
employment and industry, recreation,
and transport.

Although the report was comprehensive

in attempting to solve the issues facing
London at the time, its implementation
was not fully realised.
NEW TOWNS ACT 1946 & TOWN AND COUNTRY
PLANNING ACT 1947
The New Towns Act of 1946 was was
an Act of the Parliament of the United
Kingdom which allowed the government
to designate areas as new towns, and
passing development control functions
to a Development Corporation.

The Town and Country Planning of 1947

was an Act of Parliament in the United
Kingdom passed by the Labour
government led by Clement Attlee.