Abstract:
The high-tech style was born in England in the sixties as an evolution of Modernism. Architectural historian Colin Davies identifies four architects as initiators of the high-tech style: Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw and Michael Hopkins. The high-tech architecture became famous in 1977 with the completion of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. In the eighties of the twentieth century, the high-tech style was characterized by the use of structures and technological elements as a function of architectural decorum. Then with the advent of the instances of environmental sustainability, the high-tech architecture would seem to have changed course. More than twenty years later it seems interesting to see how the design lines of the greatest exponents of this style evolved through the relationships between buildings and the contemporary city. The examples of buildings and projects described below are located in the Italian territory where the high-tech architecture creates relationships with the local traditions and ideology.