The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 180 - 181

Question 1

Contemporary Architecture

Answer 1

• Post-Modern

- around 1970’s and ’80s

Question 2

Pei: The Last Modernist

Answer 2

• I. M. Pei
• b. 1917
• buildings declare their identity as abstract objects first, then as refined monuments

Question 3

Johnson: The Turning Point

Answer 3

• Philip Johnson
• 1906-2005
• started post-modern in mid-‘70s

Question 4

Beaubourg: Contemporary Culture Par Excellence

Answer 4

• designers sought to create a radically new kind of building for an institution that goes far beyond ho-hum museum activities

Question 5

Graves: The Triumph of Post-Modernism

Answer 5

• Michael Graves
• b. 1934
• converted to Post-Modernism in the late 1970s