Vol. 13 No. 82 (2024)
Articles

Modern Architecture and Sustainability: A Retrospective Review (1910-1940)

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  • Çağla Beyaz,
  • Çilen Erçin
Çağla Beyaz
Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus. 
Author Biography

Assist. Prof. Dr., Near East University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture, Nicosia, Cyprus. 

Çilen Erçin
Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Author Biography

Assoc. Prof. Dr., Near East University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Nicosia, Cyprus.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.82.10.1

Published 2024-10-30

Keywords

  • Modern Architectural Approaches, Modern Houses, Modern Architecture, Sustainability Parameters.

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Beyaz, Çağla, & Erçin, Çilen. (2024). Modern Architecture and Sustainability: A Retrospective Review (1910-1940). Amazonia Investiga, 13(82), 9–26. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.82.10.1

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Abstract

The possibility of seeing modern-period structures starting from the 1900s in countries with different cultures in the world. Investigating the architectural criteria for residential buildings constructed between 1910 and 1940 in various nations in compliance with modern architectural approaches and sustainability parameters is the main objective of this study. The 3 residential buildings investigated within the scope of the research were assessed based on economic, environmental cultural, and social, sustainability parameters. A methodology regarding theoretical and analytical approaches was applied within the scope of the study. The collected data were evaluated regarding sustainability parameters, function, construction, and form of selected modern period houses in the framework of sustainability parameters and modern architectural approaches. Within the residences under analysis, Functionalism De-Stijl, International Style, Cubism, and Purism approaches arise as architectural criteria. In the context of the research's outcomes, it has been showed that the parameters of sustainability that appeared in the modern period are directly connected to the principles, ideas, and approaches of the modern period. In this regard, modern architectural criteria should be included in and implemented in today's sustainable designs. Considering the criteria and approaches that emerged in the modern period, it is aimed to contribute to the literature by applying sustainability parameters in residential buildings to be designed today.

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