1970's Fashion

My theme for my current project is the 1970's and I have been partcially inspired by the fashion in this era. I thought it would be useful to start looking at the different fashion styles within each period. I am going to concentrate mainly on the 1950s- the present day.

1970's = hippie fashion/disco fashion/punk fashion

  

  

 

Norman Foster

Norman Foster is a British architect who is the countries most well known creator of the famous landmark office buildings.


 I love his modernist approach to building, whether it's a new build from scratch or enhancement of classic buildings like the British Library in London or the German Bundestag. Here are some examples.

 Hearst Tower in Manhattan, New York was opened at the end of the last year. The 42 levels tower is characteristic by a glass and metal-skinned facade with huge diagonal grid, which make multi-story corner triangles. The building was constructed using 85 percent recycled steel and designed to consume 26 percent less energy than its conventional neighbours.



30 St Mary Axe, inevitably known as the Gherkin, Norman Foster's London landmark raised the bar for sustainable skyscrapers around the world. Its distinctive tapering profile is the key to its energy efficiency because it creates a pressure differential between inside and outside, driving fresh air into the building.

Seating

I am designing a bar as part of my current project and need inspiration for seating design. I have found that designing seating is something I tend to struggle with or forget about. Its a very important aspect of design so I found it useful to collect a variety of images to help inspire ideas.

I will continue to add to this collection.

      

     

  

Skin and Bones Exhibition

The Skin and Bones exhibition is very interesting idea. It looks at how fashion and architecture work together from the 1980's to the present day. The exhibition explored how over 50 internationally renowned architects and designers (includes Alexander Mcqueen and Vivienne Westwood) 'fashion' buildings and 'construct' garments.

I found some information below detailing information behind the exhibition which I found useful to read.

''Both architects and designers are preoccupied with space, volume and providing a cover for the body, a protection from the environment and a vehicle for social and cultural comment. And these are the kernels at the heart of the exhibition, presented thematically with garments or catwalk videos on one side and architectural parallels opposite.
So the tectonic wrapping at play in Boudicca's mid-Nineties couture collections is remarkably similar to Gehry's Disney Concert Hall in LA of the early Noughties. The heightened drapery of Westwood and Yamamoto's collections of a couple of years back bear a striking resemblance to much of Hadid's work, whilst the constructed volume of Chalayan and Watanabe's Noughties collections shares much with the work of Foreign Office Architects of the same period. The similarities go on. Often the only significant differences are related to scale and material.''

Below are some images of features within the exhibition.

  

     I like the structure of this garment.

 

Interesting to see a hand rendered piece showing some of the designs (pictured above).


I found it interesting looking at the link between fashion and architecture and realising how similar the two disciplines are. Its taught me to look at fashion designers for inspiration rather than sticking to interior designers/architects.

Coop Himmelblau

Coop Himmelbau is a cooperative architectural design firm located mainly in Vienna and Vienna. There are also offices in Los Angeles, United States and Mexico.
The company was founded by Wolf Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky and Micheal Holzer. There work ranges from comercial buildings to residential projects.

There style falls into the deconstructive architecture which is a styleI find particularly interesting.

Below are some pictures of some of there work.

  
The building pictured above stood out to me with its striking deconstructive design.
The concept for the design of this building (new JVC Entertainment and Commercial Center in Guadalajara, Mexico) is based on the ideology of redefining the meaning of entertainment in the 21st century.

  

  

Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders is a Dutch industrial designer who became internationally known as one of the designers of Droog.

I like the fact his work looks quite vintage but at the same time modern. His use of pattern is effective and not to over the top. I felt it was relevent to look at some of his interior designs to inspire me to use different textures/pattern in my designs to add more variety.

I thought it would be useful for me to look at his work to help especially with my current project (Camira showroom). Marcel's use of bold patterns against  black backgrounds relate well to the psychedelic look I am going for.

 

  

  

 

  

Will Alsop

Will Alsop is a british architect based in london originally from Northampton. He has created several very controversial modernist buildings. His work is distinguished by the use of bright colours and unusual form.

Below are images of some of his work.