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ART NOUVEAU IN SZEGED HUNGARY
FACULTY OF LAW
ART NOUVEAU
The movement developed in applied arts
and fine arts connected to it, which found
a wide repertory in architecture.
It avoided straight lines breaking in angles,
it rejected the orderliness of geometric
forms.
Its basic ambition is to transmit the present,
accelerating more and more due to
technical development, to the impetus
of life taking shape.
It protests with all its vibrations against the
impersonality of manufacturing industry
and mass production crippling mankind.
It gave back the creative freedom of
mankind degraded into a simple tool,
a monotonous machine carrying out
sub-processes in production.
The joy of handicraft reached satisfaction
in creative activity.
This idea took shape as early as the period
of romanticism in England, according
to John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), a sincerity
based on respect towards material,
medieval masters used to work with.
William Morris (1834 - 1896) started the
movement which spread to Europe,
totally permeating all fields of art.
The supreme merit of secession is that
it liberated planning from the restrictions
of rules becoming academically rigid.
Some expressed functionality, others
modernity or plasticity.
The most famous architect of secessionism
the leading figure of the Scottish applied
arts movement is: Charles Rennie
Mackintosh (1868 - 1928).
His efforts start with shaping everything in
total unity and harmony, starting out from
the whole and leading to the tiniest details.
His major work, the Glasgow Fine Arts School
is the result of 12 years of careful work.
FACULTY OF LAW
It contains one of the largest legal
collections in the UK.
There are approx. 160,000 volumes
with about 2,000 serial title subscriptions.
NORMAN FOSTER,
He had an interesting long period
of collaboration with Richard
Buckminster Fuller, American architect.
He twice won the Stirling Prize, once
for the American Hangar at the
Imperial War Museum in Duxford.
He has an extremely prolific career
with important constructions worldwide.
The Law Faculty Building in Cambridge
provides a state of the art facility as well
as setting new standards for energy
efficiency on the Cambridge campus.
The curving glass of the north
façade floods the atrium and the
library with light, providing a sense
of transparency and helping the
building to receed visually.
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