Concept of Organic Architecture in the Second Half of the XXth Century in the Context of Sustainable Development

Abstract

The article defines the most essential elements of the organic architecture concept. Features of organic architecture appearing in the works of architects of the second half of the twentieth century are specified in the context of sustainable development. We consider T. Alberts to be the representative of this period and the study of his works enables us to define these elements more precisely. The authors refer to the following features of organic architecture of the second half of the twentieth century: current development of regional types of organic architecture, which are opposed to globalistic and postmodern trends; organization of international community of organic architecture followers; dominance of complex rather than single structures in the projects of organic architecture representatives including landscape, water, greenery and other elements; intensification of the attention to a human as a consumer of architecture; utilization of organic architecture as the element for building up the image of large European companies; intensification of the architects' attention to technological and economic indices in projects in contrast to the emphasis on the aesthetics of forms in the early twentieth century. These regularities would help understand the principles of organic architecture in connection with sustainability.