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THE METROPOLITAN IDEOLOGY AND THE SKYSCRAPER

THE GRAPHIC CONSTRUCT

PROF. MARTIN GUNDERSON 

The contemporary idea that the modern skyscraper is reinvented is a fabricated novelty; it is rather an evolution that is extrapolated from Gothic architecture. Modern skyscrapers are reaching new boundaries addressing light, verticality, proportion, scale, occupation and function of which these principles and precedents of Gothic architecture are greatly influential at the metropolitan scale. Gothic architecture is regularly associated with the many great ecclesiastical cathedrals and is most profoundly expressed in its architecture through the characteristics that lend themselves to various perplexing emotions.

 

 

he evolving architecture has a strong emphasis on the manifestation of scalar issues that address problematic conditions in the interior and exterior. A modern aesthetic is developed from ideals, which then begins to activate the contemporary form of the skyscraper at the urban scale. Thus, the skyscraper is the modern cathedral; by the way people interact with architecture they are compressed in to submission.

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