MINIMALIST ARCHITECTURE

The minimalist architecture as its name says is intended to highlight the "minimal" "less is more" or "less is more" hence the term drift and tendency to get a lot with the bare minimum, reduce to essentials, without leftover to go out on its geometry and its simplicity, using simple materials pure monochromatic colors textures and decorative elements.

 MINIMALISM: LESS IS MORE

Minimalism: Less is more; Minimalism is a trend of architecture characterized by extreme simplicity of its forms that emerged in New York in the late sixties. and form a unit. This is summarized in the minimalist principle that "everything is part of everything." Eventually minimalism born in the late sixties reached its maturity in the eighties to the point that exerted influence

The origins of this trend are in Europe and are in the manifesto entitled "Less is more" by the German architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, one of the most important of this century. Since World War II Van Der Rohe emigrated to America to later naturalized American.
In the late thirties Van Der Rohe exercised the direction of the School of Art and Design at the Bauhaus in Germany where their ideas are materialized primeas for purity of form and the use of the artistic concept to provide the industrial design personality.

MINIMALISMO ADVANTAGES:

One of the major advantages is the reduction of minimalism and simplicity of the elements and the material economy as much as decorative elements contributes in some way to reducing costs in terms of construction not only this but also can achieve architectural symbol of modernity, and that minimalism is a sign of our times, minimalist architecture is not cold is human, it highlights the nature and light, the different way in which humans interact with the place that will be your shelter or housing in which not only achieved that it fulfills its functional role but also their spiritual and psychological role with humans who inhabit