Architecture as Engineering

The Technological Revolution

1986 The new headquarters building
for Lloyds of London was completed
1977 The Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo
Piano.
The architects describe the structure as
a "live centre of information connected
to a network of other centres.
 Late 1960s The Archirouphad set
out what was to become a series of
uncannily prescient models for a
high-technology, open-ended
architecture of infrastructure.
The British work, premised as it was
on issues like the desire for sensory
stimulation and the very 1960s
preoccupation with the pursuit of
pleasure and a libertarian lifestyle.
The British movement from the
1950s known as the New Brutalism.
 The "brutal" expression of technology
and "truth to materials" and the
metropolitan-scale infrastructures and
systems of movement were to become
fundamental principles for much of the
architecture which followed
Champion of technology
Buckminster Fuller the inovator of geodesic
dome in 1967 at montreal, th e geodesic
dome used new materials and technologies
1920 1940 Dymaxion, limited practical
application but significant theoritical interest
Archigram
 Le Corbusiers famous claim Machine
For Living In
Fuller as the herald of a true machine-
age architecture by dymaxion house