High-Tech Design

High-Tech architecture emerged in the 1970s. It was also known as Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism. It incorporated high-tech industry and technology into building design. This era served as a bridge between modernism and post-modernism.

Architects experimented with hollow structural sections and emphasised on the visual aspect using internal steel and a concrete skeletal structure.

'Cybertecture Egg' by James Law for Mumbai

inhabitat. 2008. James Law's High Tech 'Cybertecture Egg' for Mumbai. [ONLINE] Available at: http://inhabitat.com/james-law-high-tech-cybertechture-egg-for-mumbai/. [Accessed 26 January 14].

The style was named after a book called 'High-Tech: The Industrial style and Source book for the Home', written by Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin. It illustrated ideas of industrial objects such as, shelving runway, light fixtures, industrial carpeting being used in the home. The book proved extremely popular and so gave way to the style name, 'High-Tech'. Industrial spaces were being converted into residential spaces and the architecture gave everything an industrial appearance. Glass walls and steel frames became widely used in architectural designs. Technical features were externally used like ventilation ducts on the outside of the building instead of inside.

High-Tech : The Industrial Style and Source book for the Home by Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin

William Stout Architectural Books. no date. High-Tech : The Industrial Style and Source book for the Home. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.stoutbooks.com/cgi-bin/stoutbooks.cgi/43179. [Accessed 26 January 14].