Modern Architecture

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Modern Architecture

• Architectural History
• ACT 322
• Doris Kemp

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Topics

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

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Post-Modernism

• Major Architects
• Robert Venturi
• Charles Moore
• Hans Hollein
• Phillip Johnson
• James Stirling
• Aldo Rossi

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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

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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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Post-Modernism

• Charles Moore
• Another Post Modern architect who was a
  contemporary of Venturi
• Affected by Louis Kahns feelings for the
  architectural past
• Major structures
• Dormitory Complex, Kresge College, CA
• Piazza dItalia, New Orleans, LA

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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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Post-Modernism

• Piazza dItalia
• 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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Post-Modernism

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

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Post-Modernism

• Austrian Travel Bureau
• Located in Vienna, Austria
• 1978
• Gains influence from the Piazza dItalia
• Features
• Oriental pavilion
• Chessboard seating area

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Post-Modernism

• Philip Johnson
• The most powerful figure of American
  Post-Modernism
• The reigning dean of American architecture
• Notable structure
• ATT Building in New York City

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Post-Modernism

• ATT Building
• Located in New York City
• Now known as the Sony Building
• 647-ft
• Granite clad
• 36 oversized stories

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Post-Modernism

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

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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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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

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Post-Modernism

• Teatro del Mondo
• Rossis 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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References

• Sullivan, Mary http//www.bluffton.edu/sullivanm
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• Trachtenburg/Hyman Architecture From Prehistory
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• Wodehouse/Moffett A History of Western
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Modern Architecture

• Architectural History
• ACT 322
• Doris Kemp