The roots of modern architecture and design evolved from the start of the Technical Revolution in the Industrial Era of mass production for building material of glass and steel. The Crystal Palace
was the first glass and steel structure that was exposed to public masses as a new building type (other than a Green house). The open design, as illustrated below, exposes new ways of thinking and ways dealing with open interior space. Those who embraced this new media would take part in a new art that deliberately broke ties from traditional styles of the past.
was the first glass and steel structure that was exposed to public masses as a new building type (other than a Green house). The open design, as illustrated below, exposes new ways of thinking and ways dealing with open interior space. Those who embraced this new media would take part in a new art that deliberately broke ties from traditional styles of the past.
Crystal Palace, building designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and erected in Hyde Park, London, for the Great Exhibition in 1851… One of the most significant examples of 19th-century, proto-modern architecture, it was widely imitated in Europe and America.
The Great Exhibition: Definition from Answers.com
The Great Exhibition: Definition from Answers.com
Crystal Palace Commentary
"Built out of prefabricated and wrought-iron elements and based on a four-foot module, this 1,848-foot-long ferro-vitreous construction was erected to the designs of Joseph Paxton and Charles Fox, of Fox, Henderson & Co. Its interior volume was organized into galleries which were alternately 24 feet and 48 feet wide. The roof of these galleries stepped up by 20 feet every 72 feet and culminated in a central nave 72 feet wide. The 'ridge and furrow' roof glazing system specially devised for the occasion required 49-inch glass sheets capable of spanning between furrows 8 feet apart, with three ridges occurring every 24 feet."
— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945 p11.
"Built out of prefabricated and wrought-iron elements and based on a four-foot module, this 1,848-foot-long ferro-vitreous construction was erected to the designs of Joseph Paxton and Charles Fox, of Fox, Henderson & Co. Its interior volume was organized into galleries which were alternately 24 feet and 48 feet wide. The roof of these galleries stepped up by 20 feet every 72 feet and culminated in a central nave 72 feet wide. The 'ridge and furrow' roof glazing system specially devised for the occasion required 49-inch glass sheets capable of spanning between furrows 8 feet apart, with three ridges occurring every 24 feet."
— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945
p11. 
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