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Post-Modernism Information
miscellaneous stuff about post-modern architecture
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
05/07/2011

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Term

General Characteristics of the

Aim of Post-Modernism (6)

Definition

1.  Stylistic Diversity

2.  Multitude

3.  The Particular

4.  Decentralization

5.  Self-Reference

6.  Eclecticism

Term
Themes of Post-Modernism:
Definition

History

Meaning

    - form and content in function and tectonics

    - questions of representation and language

    - scenography

Place

    - Man/Woman

    - Architecture, Nature

    - Existence/Regionalist/Dwelling as Ontological Act

Urban Theory

    - contextualism

    - image of the city

    - typology and neo-rationalism (europe)

    - Edge Cities

    - New American Urbanism (Neo-Traditionalism)

Term
Complexity and Contradiction
Definition

- Venturi

- architecture is ambivalent and interesting

    - either/or = modernism

    - both/and = post-modernism

- create a more popular architecture

Term
Learning from Las Vegas
Definition

- Venturi and Brown

- the Duck vs. the Decorated Shed

    - duck = iconic sign; form has certain things in common

      with the content

    - decorated shed = symbolic signs; depends on learned

      meanings; communicate effectively

Term
l'Architettura della Citta
Definition

- Aldo Rossi

- timeless typology and morphology of the city

- city = expression of culture and its collective memory

- contextualism - ??

- polysemic nature of architecture - how buildings can be

   transformed and re-used over time

Term
Syntactic Form details
Definition

- Peter Eisenman

- liberate architectural form from extra-architectural meaning

- syntax instead of semantics

- sign = self-referential to itself

- understand form as sign

- Wexner Center for the Visual Arts

- idea over object

- transformation of form:  materiality vs. transformation

- contextualism - deals with what is present at the site and what is

  missing

Term
Innocent Form
Definition

- Peter Zumthor

- "culturally innocent"

- intrinsic essence of materials


Term

consistencies and tendencies

in Associative Form (4)

Definition

1.  "art objects" and "everyday objects"

2.  "combines" of two things into something new

3.  scalar displacement of common objects

4.  unexpected material combinations

Term
Associative Form
Definition

Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Museum

Bilbao, Spain

1991-97

Term
Specific Form
Definition

Herzog & de Meuron

Goetz Gallery

Munich

1992

Term
Innocent Form
Definition

Peter Zumthor

Chapel

Sogn Benedegt

1986

Term
Syntactic Form
Definition

Peter Eisenman

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts

 Columbus

1983-89

Term
Superimposed Form
Definition

Bernard Tschumi

Parc de la Vilette

Paris

1985

Term
Generic Form
Definition

Rem Koolhaas

Public Library

Seattle

2004

Term
Scenographic Form
Definition

Robert Venturi

Vanna Venturi House

Chestnut Hill

1962

Term
Narrative-Matrix Form
Definition

Daniel Libeskind

Jewish Museum

Berlin

1989-98

Term
Polysemic Form
Definition

Aldo Rossi

Cemetry of San Cataldo

Modena

1971

Term
Programmatic Form
Definition
SAANA
Term
Alice in Wonderland
Definition

Generic Form

 

architects generate "artificial world" with theatrical qualities

Term
cross-programming
Definition

generic form

 

unexpected functions in rooms

Term
deliberate transformation
Definition
narrative-matrix form
Term
"unoriginal signs"
Definition
narrative-matrix form
Term
architecture that does not represent anything
Definition

specific form

 

simply exists

Term
the duck vs. the decorated shed
Definition
scenographic form
Term
architecture by nature is fundamentally useless
Definition

superimposed form

 

Berndard Tschumi

Term
building vs. system of architecture
Definition
superimposed form
Term
psychology --> sensations and feelings
Definition
associative form
Term
Primitive Repercussions
Definition
Associative Form
Term
culturally innocent attributes
Definition
innocent form
Term
there are no ideas except in things
Definition

innocent form

 

Peter Zumthor

Term
intrinsic essence of material
Definition
innocent form
Term
phenomenologist
Definition
innocent form
Term

liberate architectural form from

extra-architectural meaning

Definition
syntactic form
Term
idea over object
Definition
syntactic form
Term
syntax over semantics
Definition

syntactic form

scenographic form

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