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General Characteristics of the
Aim of Post-Modernism (6) |
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1. Stylistic Diversity
2. Multitude
3. The Particular
4. Decentralization
5. Self-Reference
6. Eclecticism |
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Themes of Post-Modernism: |
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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) |
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Complexity and Contradiction |
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- Venturi
- architecture is ambivalent and interesting
- either/or = modernism
- both/and = post-modernism
- create a more popular architecture |
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- 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 |
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l'Architettura della Citta |
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- 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 |
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- 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 |
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- Peter Zumthor
- "culturally innocent"
- intrinsic essence of materials
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consistencies and tendencies
in Associative Form (4) |
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1. "art objects" and "everyday objects"
2. "combines" of two things into something new
3. scalar displacement of common objects
4. unexpected material combinations |
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Frank Gehry
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain
1991-97 |
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Herzog & de Meuron
Goetz Gallery
Munich
1992 |
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Peter Zumthor
Chapel
Sogn Benedegt
1986 |
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Peter Eisenman
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts
Columbus
1983-89 |
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Bernard Tschumi
Parc de la Vilette
Paris
1985 |
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Rem Koolhaas
Public Library
Seattle
2004 |
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Robert Venturi
Vanna Venturi House
Chestnut Hill
1962 |
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Daniel Libeskind
Jewish Museum
Berlin
1989-98 |
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Aldo Rossi
Cemetry of San Cataldo
Modena
1971 |
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Generic Form
architects generate "artificial world" with theatrical qualities |
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generic form
unexpected functions in rooms |
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deliberate transformation |
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architecture that does not represent anything |
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specific form
simply exists |
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the duck vs. the decorated shed |
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architecture by nature is fundamentally useless |
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superimposed form
Berndard Tschumi |
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building vs. system of architecture |
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psychology --> sensations and feelings |
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culturally innocent attributes |
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there are no ideas except in things |
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innocent form
Peter Zumthor |
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intrinsic essence of material |
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liberate architectural form from
extra-architectural meaning |
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syntactic form
scenographic form |
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