Post Modernism

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POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE:

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A desire to avoid boredom, that is to pursue the interesting
A determination to escape from logic and order
Eccentricity and tastelessness have become tools of design

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Work of architecture=

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Functional buildings + An added aesthetic component?
OR
Building + Decoration?

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“Postmodernism” suggest…

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“futurism” although the future it envisions is defined by its break with at least some of the forces that have shaped modernity…

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Both Modernism and Postmodernism were…

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born of concern with the shape of the modern world

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Postmodernism was a…

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realization and response to the failures of Modernism

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Principles of functionalism - Programmatic determinism - Technological expressionism

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Produced buildings without connection to the site, place, the human being and history

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“When modern architects righteously abandoned ornament on buildings,

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they unconsciously designed buildings that were ornament.” (Venturi)

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“The sign architecture of Las Vegas belongs with the car and highway.

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To catch our attention as we drive by, these signs have to scream; to be understood they must carry a clear message.”

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Mute:

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Modern architecture (language problem)

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Aesthetic populism

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Utilization of familiar and canonical symbols in architecture (Las Vegas)

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Postmodernists were fascinated…

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with this kitsch language

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Social formation no longer obeys the classical capitalism,

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namely the primacy industrial production and the omnipresence of class struggle.

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Robert Venturi (b. 1925) developed the…

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theoretical basis of post-modernism in his Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

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Robert Venturi (b. 1925)

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father of post modernism

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Modernism:

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Dullness and boredom

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Complexities & contradictory forms can bring design…

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into closer touch with human qualities

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post modernism design groups

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MEMPHIS (Milan-based group 1980s)
Ettore Sottsas

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Vanna Venturi House date + location

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Philadelphia, 1964

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Vanna Venturi House designer

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Robert Venturi

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Vanna Venturi House features

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Designed for his mom
staircase to nowhere
Reminiscent of greek temple - broken pediment
But scale is wrong too big
Asymmetrical facade

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VANNA VENTURI HOUSE features 2

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Its basic symmetry is modified by surprising asymmetries
Interior spaces have unexpectedly angled forms that upset their routine rectangularity
Furniture is traditional and nondescript rather than the modern classics that might be expected
Decorative ornament and references to historical precedents
Exaggerated proportions
Whimsical and contradictory qualities

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A.T. &T Building (now Sony Plaza) date + location

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New York, 1978-83

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A.T. &T Building (now Sony Plaza) deisgner

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Philip Johnson
Started as a modernist designer then changed to post modernist

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A.T. &T Building (now Sony Plaza) features

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Broken pediment on exterior corner
Older look on the inside

Question 25

Austrian Travel Bureau Office date + location

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Vienna, 1978

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Austrian Travel Bureau Office designer

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Hans Hollein

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Austrian Travel Bureau Office columns

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Some columns have structural properties some don’t Also are dressed as an artificial gold palm tree Some columns look like greek columns, but are made to look broken Modernist liked columns to all be structural and look like columns - no tricks

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Cariton Book case date and designer

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1981 Ettore Sottsass

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Cariton Book case features

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Whimsical and colorful Loved pastel colors

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Queen Anne & Chippendale Chairs date + designer

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(Knoll), 1978-84 Robert Venturi

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Queen Anne & Chippendale Chairs features

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Flattened forms of original designs Uses memory of designs Negative and positive space Kitschy pattern almost childlike Made of plywood Not true look to what the material is Looks like a textile or plastic

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Fifth Avenue Duplex Renovation date + location

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New York, 1983

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Fifth Avenue Duplex Renovation designer

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Robert A. M. Stern

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Fifth Avenue Duplex Renovation features

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Columns look traditional from the front, but the sides of the columns are flat and don’t continue in pattern Has an element that is reminiscent of an arch with a keystone hanging below