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Modern Architecture

Modern Architecture. Architectural History ACT 322 Doris Kemp. Topics. Robert Venturi Charles Moore Hans Hollein Phillip Johnson James Stirling Aldo Rossi. Post-Modernism. Major Architects Robert Venturi Charles Moore Hans Hollein Phillip Johnson James Stirling Aldo Rossi.

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Modern Architecture

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  1. Modern Architecture Architectural History ACT 322 Doris Kemp

  2. Topics • Robert Venturi • Charles Moore • Hans Hollein • Phillip Johnson • James Stirling • Aldo Rossi

  3. Post-Modernism • Major Architects • Robert Venturi • Charles Moore • Hans Hollein • Phillip Johnson • James Stirling • Aldo Rossi

  4. Post-Modernism • Robert Venturi • A great admirer of Louis Kahn • Post-Modern architect whose early works were very influential in contemporary architecture • Wrote Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture • Was fed up with “the puritanically moral language of orthodox Modern architecture” • Believed “Less is a bore” not more as Mies had quoted

  5. Post-Modernism • Chestnut Hill House • Designed by Venturi • Located in Philadelphia, PA • A conventional American suburban, stuccoed, wood-frame “crackerbox” • Critics called the house “ugly and ordinary”

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  8. Post-Modernism • Charles Moore • Another Post Modern architect who was a contemporary of Venturi • Affected by Louis Kahn’s feelings for the architectural past • Major structures • Dormitory Complex, Kresge College, CA • Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, LA

  9. Post-Modernism • Dormitory Complex, Kresge College • Located in Santa Cruz, CA • Resembles an Italian hill town • Accented with bright , primary colors at strategic places

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  12. Post-Modernism • Piazza d’Italia • Located in New Orleans, LA • Designed by Charles Moore • Designed to provide the small Italian-American population in New Orleans with an architectural focus of ethnic identity

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  15. Post-Modernism • Hans Hollein • Austrian Post-Modern architect • Designed the Austrian Travel Bureau in Vienna, Austria

  16. Post-Modernism • Austrian Travel Bureau • Located in Vienna, Austria • 1978 • Gains influence from the Piazza d’Italia • Features • Oriental pavilion • Chessboard seating area

  17. Post-Modernism http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

  18. Post-Modernism • Philip Johnson • The most powerful figure of American Post-Modernism • The reigning dean of American architecture • Notable structure • AT&T Building in New York City

  19. Post-Modernism • AT&T Building • Located in New York City • Now known as the Sony Building • 647-ft • Granite clad • 36 oversized stories

  20. Post-Modernism http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html

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  22. Post-Modernism • James Stirling • Designed a key work of Post-Modernism • The expansion of the Staatsgalerie

  23. Post-Modernism • Staatsgalerie • Located in Stuttgart • Features • Grand historical collage of structures • Theater and museum • Gains influence from Egypt, Mycenae, and the Athenian Acropolis

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  28. Post-Modernism • Aldo Rossi • A Post-Modern architect from Milan • Enjoyed cult-figure status as the leader of the Neo-Rationalists • Poorly understood but widely admired group of Italian architects • Believed the architecture of a city is reducible to a limited number of types

  29. Post-Modernism • Teatro del Mondo • Rossi’s best known work • A re-creation of the Theatrum Mundi • Sixteenth-century floating festival theater in Venice • Literally floats on the waters of Venice, Italy

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  32. References • Sullivan, Mary; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ • http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wdpt1.html • Trachtenburg/Hyman; Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity • Wodehouse/Moffett; A History of Western Architecture

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