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pluralism, ornament, whimsy
rejects: clarity, honesty, structure "less is more"
direct rejection of modernism, it creates a new alternative |
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American, worked for Kahn.
Venturi wanted hybrid or different, distored, ect.
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Venturi.
public housing for elderly people. ordinary red brick, double hung windows.
sign=commercial architecture, does this for functional reasons as well. |
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icon in beginning of post modernism
1. front is mixing together subtle historical refrences that don't belong, in an abstract way
2. ribbon window- doesn't go with the front.
3. chimney is massive, makes house look bigger than it actually is.
stairs and fireplace are "battling" one another, lots of optical illusions. |
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Complexity and contradiction in Architecture |
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book by Venturi, published by musem of modern architechture. |
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book by Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, based on normal people within las vegas
state that the problem with architecture is they are ignoring 99% of buildings (gas stastions, stores, ect)
venturi believed you could learn from these structures.
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Project for national gallery extension |
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wanted to build new wing for museum
Peter Ahrends wins this contest, his idea looks modern and Prince Charles hates his idea so they throw his idea away
and venturi and brown win instead.
1. used same limestone as original building
2. respected height of old building
3. refrenced classical styles for new building |
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American ficton writer, calls attention to weaknesses of modern architecture.
Non fiction: From bauhaus to our house- basically a rant against modern architecture, thought modernism was cold and ugly
He hated kahns addition to Yale Art Gallery thought it was a box of steel and cold and ugly
fuels post modernism |
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father gave him stock and became rich. colaberates with mies and corbusier but hes a post modernist now.
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phillip johnson, mixed reputation icon of post modernism but gets a lot of publicity.
-has very little rules, changed his ways multiple times
1. covered in pink stone
2. top of building plays off a specific type of furniture, goes against modern
big arcade in bottom, open and allowed people to cut through it |
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Michael Graves
big cube
part classicism
across the street from a park, why the bottom level is green
cuts through a square of steel and glass, small windows
outlandish gold statue
rejects modernism |
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Charles Moore
urban redevelopment project
not a building, but a design in a plaza
giant fountain shaped like italy, different columns called "orders" "delicidecent orders"
italian theme fantasy world, mash of clasicissm styles very famous moment in history
very ugly now and sad |
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Harold Washington Library |
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Thomas Beebe
part of chicago 7
monumentatlity- big a muscular building, has substence
stone and brick
clasically symmetrical-entrance is in center, has sense of a big castle
omage to Daniel Burnam bc height was same exact height described in his plan of chicago
ornamential owls of wisdom on corners
side of building is omage to mies bc of glass box |
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Stanley Tigerman
"Titanic" |
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central figure of the chicago 7
made collage of building sinking in lake michigan, the building was a building built by Mies Van Der Rohe.
Stanley is most prominent chicago architecture at the time but he did not have a signature building.
His ideas never looked the same- always different. |
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Illinois Library for the Blind |
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very specific to its purpose
color was high contrast so people who visually impaired could see it well.
no sharp corners, very flowy. |
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Illinois Holocaust museum |
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Stanly tigerman
building has a clear function
dark half and light half of building.
"hinge" = darkness to the light
left everything exposed- raw and unfinished
different shapes, not one specific style
didnt want people to leave the same door you walked in- journey |
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Pruitt Igoe Housing Projects |
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Yamasaki, st. louis
concentrated poverty in these buildings
many problems with this.
was torn down in the 70s and seen as a failture of modern architecture |
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reject "lack of seriousness" in post modern archtecture- seen as playful
deconstructivists were more serious minded
Begins with Phillip johnson |
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Museum of modern archetecture Deconstrustivist exhibit |
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imperfectability- opposite of modern architecture, deformed, fragments, jagged, expressive shape, disharmony
similar to post modern, but it rejects frivilous and playful aspect.
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french philosopher
made the notion of deconstrucion very popular. Believed too much focus on finished things, he wanted to disect how ideas came to be. Godfather to deconstrustivism. |
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decided to remake this house, built outward and used industrial materials.
he added to the house in a non traditional way.
pyramids, trapazoids, squares, ect.
distortion and disharmony- "under construction" look.
sued by his neighbors bc they hated the house lol bitch ass |
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Peter Eisnman
liked difficulty and disruption, he seeks disharmony
white concrete cube w complicated geometry
house is a grid, but disrupts it
cross beams inside some are structure others are not.
upside down red staircase on the ceiling
The building is meant to be a "record of design process," where the structure that results is the methodical manipulation of a grid.
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Rem Koolhaus- Grand Palas |
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Dutch man
arena, looks half constructed, half not.
irregular shapped half panes of glass.
positive and negative space, sense of distortion
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Mccormick tribune campus center IIT |
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got to mess around with a campus designed by mies van der rohe
was given job to make a new student commons
big steel tube- sound insulating |
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Coop Himmelblau rooftop extension |
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The remodelling is an edition to a pre-existing traditional Viennese building.
The rooftop building extension itself is a parasitic structure, appearing to chaotically distort and violently slice the existing building.
a riotous melange of twisted and warped shapes which resembles a dead pterodactyl that has crash-landed on the roof” |
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Polish American
fantasy project, imaginary example of many types of archtecture that could be built around Berlin |
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Fish- spain, first made apperance at Olympics
Guggenheim Bilbao- clad metal shapes, very dramatic shape
had a noteable style.
builds outwards
industrial metal, metallic.
Canadian-American |
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all about individualism not all working together to achieve common goals.
Very cool, but lacks cohesiveness. |
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Norman Foster (British)
replacement of original dome with a spiral glass dome
glass is transparent of democratic government
new dome is light modern and fresh high tech germany
political symbolism
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richard rogers and renzo piano
external structure skeleton
different colors/functions |
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insurance, commercial
various types of steel
guts are exposed
looked like old gothic cathedreal
has been redeveloped multiple times
grade one monumentThe building is a leading example of radical Bowellism architecture in which the services for the building, such as ducts and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior. (just like Pompidou center)
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Rezno Piano museums big buisness for starchitects
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Zaha Hadid
contious, flowing, no corners or abrupt transitions
likes plastic |
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Heydar Aliyver Cultural Center |
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Hadid
continuous fluid to break traditional technology
Hadid liberated architectural geometry[2] with the creation of highly expressive, sweeping fluid forms of multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry that evoke the chaos and flux of modern life |
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Shig Ban
allowed easy viewing of art, hexagon |
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Shig Ban
lots of transparency and openness
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