pluralism, ornament, whimsy

rejects: clarity, honesty, structure "less is more"

direct rejection of modernism, it creates a new alternative

American, worked for Kahn.

Venturi wanted hybrid or different, distored, ect.

Venturi.

public housing for elderly people. ordinary red brick, double hung windows.

sign=commercial architecture, does this for functional reasons as well. 

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. 

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. 

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

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

father gave him stock and became rich. colaberates with mies and corbusier but hes a post modernist now. 

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

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

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 

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

Stanley Tigerman 

"Titanic"

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. 

very specific to its purpose 

color was high contrast so people who visually impaired could see it well.

no sharp corners, very flowy. 

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 

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

reject "lack of seriousness" in post modern archtecture- seen as playful

deconstructivists were more serious minded

Begins with Phillip johnson

imperfectability- opposite of modern architecture, deformed, fragments, jagged, expressive shape, disharmony

similar to post modern, but it rejects frivilous and playful aspect. 

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.

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

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.

Dutch man

arena, looks half constructed, half not.

irregular shapped half panes of glass.

positive and negative space, sense of distortion

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

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”

Polish American

fantasy project, imaginary example of many types of archtecture that could be built around Berlin

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

all about individualism not all working together to achieve common goals.

Very cool, but lacks cohesiveness.

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

richard rogers and renzo piano

external structure skeleton

different colors/functions

Llyods building

London

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)

Rezno Piano
museums big buisness for starchitects

Zaha Hadid

contious, flowing, no corners or abrupt transitions

likes plastic

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

Shig Ban

allowed easy viewing of art, hexagon

Shig Ban

lots of transparency and openness