It started out during the 17th to 19th century. Capitalism was really the driving engine of this era. It encouraged the people to work for the sake of the economy's profit. They even allowed child labor and working women in this time. Children are working at the age of 6 for 20 hours with no break! (No wonder why everything became fast). Some of them got sick and died eventually.Massive materials was their primary material, such as iron and steel. People here became more technical rather than intellectual.
Great Britain was the first ones to develop their country. It became largely rural and agrarian population to a country. Here, the government recommended the people to live in cities because they thought that people would be more interested in buying materials; and when they buy, money would just revolve in the cities.
My personal reaction to this Architectural feature is that, this era wasn't really that bad after all. They were just blinded by the progression that has transpired through their country. And they also had benefits from working overtime, they had engines that helps them to do their work 10x much faster than manual work. Technology made peoples live so much easy. But sometimes it gets too much abused, and instead use technology to become greedy. In exchange to their hard work are their convenience to live the faster life. These are just bunch of people working hard to have a faster and much easier life.
Most notable technology that was created:
1794 - Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin
1798 - Johan Kiefuss: Musket
Robert Fulton: Steamboat
Thomas Edison: Light Bulb
Graham Bell: Telephone
Automobiles
Railroads
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HSTARC2 Blog update:
American Architecture
Growth of European States
Arts & Crafts
Art Nouveau
Beaux Arts + Neo Gothic
Art Deco
Bauhaus
International Architecture
Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Le Corbusier
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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