Modern Architecture

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Modern Architecture

• Architectural History
• ACT 322
• Doris Kemp

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Topics

• Neo-Modernist Extremes
• High Tech
• Deconstructivism

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Neo-Modernist Extremes

• The late twentieth century continued in important
  sectors the modern preoccupation with
  architectural essentialism
• The meaning of architecture has been redefined
  many times and contemporary architecture is no
  exception

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Neo-Modernist Extremes

• High Tech
• Generally seen in a trio of architects
• Norman Foster
• Richard Rogers
• Renzo Piano

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Neo-Modernist Extremes

• Norman Foster
• Important contemporary architect whose Hong Kong
  and Shanghai Bank is considered a manifesto of
  the High Tech movement

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Neo-Modernist Extremes

• Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
• 1979 -1986
• Headquarters of the dominant financial
  institution in Hong Kong
• Foster rejected the standard format of the office
  tower
• Employs a novel structure of large-span
  components
• Giant masts are gathered into groups of four to
  form huge pylons

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Neo-Modernist Extremes

• Richard Rogers
• His Lloyds Building in London is often paired
  with Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

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Neo-Modernist Extremes

• Lloyds Building
• Located in London, England
• Interior forms a unitary, multistoried space
• Exterior is designed to look as complex as
  possible
• Dispersed around the building are towers of
  tubes, ducts, shafts, glass, and metal boxes

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Neo-Modernist Extremes

• Renzo Piano
• Designed the Kansai Airport in Japan

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Neo-Modernist Extremes

• Kansai Airport
• 1988 1994
• Intended to revitalize Japans second most
  populous region
• Located on the largest artificial island ever
  built
• Five miles off of Osaka

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Neo-Modernist Oppositions

• Deconstructivism
• Realization that a building could never ne made
  completely perfect
• The very look of imperfection could be a virtue
  in itself

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Neo-Modernist Oppositions

• Rooftop Office
• Located in Vienna, Austria
• 1983 1988
• Considered a Deconstructivist jewel
• Baffled critics who struggled to describe the
  structure

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Neo-Modernist Oppositions

• Wexner Center for the Arts
• Columbus, Ohio
• Designed by the American architect Peter Eisenman
• In the form of a slanting spine

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Neo-Modernist Oppositions

• Parc de la Villete
• Located in Paris, France
• Designed by Bernard Tschumi
• Features an array of oddly shaped pavilions

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References

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

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Modern Architecture

• Architectural History
• ACT 322
• Doris Kemp