Experiment 3: Article Mashup

Something as important as architecture cannot be founded upon arbitrary bases. One of the most interesting trends in architectural materials of recent years is the increase in use of weathering steel - more commonly referred to by its trademark name, Cor-Ten. Thought the material has been around for decades, first being used for architectural purposes in the Eero Saarinen-designed John Deere Headquarters in 1964, the material has seen a surge in popularity in the last decade or so, being used in everything from individual houses and tiny kiosks, to SHoP's design for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

For the best part of a century, architectural discussion has been dominated by modernism and other related forms of futurism and functionalism. We would prefer an architecture that is consistent with human feeling, and in which design decisions are based on observation and empirical verification. For some, this constant invocation of the radically new has begun to look quite tired. In the 1980s looking backwards for inspiration famously brought us the adaptive and populist postmodernists, but also emerging at this time was New Classical architecture, which completely rejected any continuity with modernism and returned instead to traditional rules.

Salingaros, Nikos 2015, Unified Architectural Theory, Chapter 13, ArchDaily, Accessed 19 June 2015, <http://www.archdaily.com/636876/unified-architectural-theory-chapter-13>

Stott, Rory 2015, AD Round-Up: 9 Projects that make Creative Use of Cor-ten Steel, ArchDaily, Accessed 19 June 2015, <http://www.archdaily.com/628127/ad-round-up-9-projects-that-make-creative-use-of-cor-ten-steel>

Goodwin, Dario 2015, 6 Classical Building That Are Younger Than You Think,  ArchDaily, Accessed 19 June 2015, <http://www.archdaily.com/621256/6-classical-buildings-that-are-younger-than-you-think>