High-tech architecture
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| - | '''High tech''' is [[technology]] that is at the [[cutting edge]]—the most advanced technology currently available. The adjective form is hyphenated: '''high-tech''' or '''high-technology'''. (There is also an [[architectural style]] known as [[High-tech architecture|high tech]]). | + | '''High-tech architecture''', or '''[[Late Modernism]]''', is an [[architectural style]] that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped [[Modern architecture|modernism]], an extension of those previous ideas aided by even more advances in technological achievements. This period serves as a bridge between modernism and [[Postmodern architecture|post-modernism]], however there remain gray areas as to where one period ends and the other begins. In the [[1980s]], high-tech architecture became more difficult to distinguish from other post-modern architecture. Many of its themes and ideas were absorbed into the language of the post-modern architectural schools. |
| - | There is no specific class of technology that is high tech—the definition shifts over time—so products [[hype]]d as high tech in the 1960s would now be considered, if not exactly [[low-technology|low tech]], then at least somewhat primitive. This fuzzy definition has led to marketing departments describing nearly all new products as high tech. | ||
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High-tech architecture, or Late Modernism, is an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism, an extension of those previous ideas aided by even more advances in technological achievements. This period serves as a bridge between modernism and post-modernism, however there remain gray areas as to where one period ends and the other begins. In the 1980s, high-tech architecture became more difficult to distinguish from other post-modern architecture. Many of its themes and ideas were absorbed into the language of the post-modern architectural schools.
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