New Formalism (architecture)

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Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, designed by Welton Becket and Associates, 1967 LA Music Center Mark Taper Forum.jpg
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, designed by Welton Becket and Associates, 1967
The now destroyed original World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Minoru Yamasaki with Emery Roth & Sons associates The World Trade Center in New York City, July 28, 2000.jpg
The now destroyed original World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Minoru Yamasaki with Emery Roth & Sons associates

New Formalism is an architectural style that emerged in the United States during the mid-1950s and flowered in the 1960s. Buildings designed in that style exhibited many Classical elements including "strict symmetrical elevations" [1] building proportion and scale, Classical columns, highly stylized entablatures and colonnades. The style was used primarily for high-profile cultural, high tech, institutional and civic buildings. Edward Durrell Stone's New Delhi American Embassy (1954), which blended the architecture of the east with modern western concepts, is considered to be the symbolic start of New Formalism architecture. [2]

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Common features of the New Formalism style include:

Notable architects

Notable examples

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center by Matthew Bisanz.JPG
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Istiqlal Mosque Grand Istiqlal Mosque.jpg
Istiqlal Mosque

References

  1. Wiffen, Marcus, American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to the Styles, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1969
  2. 1 2 "Architectural Styles in Fullerton: New Formalism". fullertonheritage.org. Archived from the original on 2017-11-29. Retrieved 2014-12-30.