POSTMODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
“Less is
MORE.”
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“Less is
A BORE.”
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Swiss architect Charles-Eduoard Jenneret, best
known as Le Corbusier, promoted the
International Style that the Bauhaus school
helped to make popular. His designs for
buildings include geometric shapes, maximum
use of space, and a lack of ornamentation. Le
Corbusier referred to his style as Purism
because it relied on pure geometric shapes.
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929.
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(International Style)
Villa Savoye is a country house he designed
supports his belief that a home should not need
load-bearing walls – the steel beams support
the structure, giving it much more space.
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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929. MODERNISM (International Style)
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“A house is a machine for living.”
Le Corbusier
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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929. MODERNISM (International Style)
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Le Corbusier, Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut, 1955. MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
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Le Corbusier, Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut, 1955.
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Le Corbusier, Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut, 1955.
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AT & T Building
Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson helped Mies van
der Rohe design the Seagram
Building in the 1950s, but in the
’70s he did the opposite with the
AT&T Building (now called the
Sony Building)
Phillip Johnson in 1978 with
model of AT&T building
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Instead of a building made of sleek
glass and metal, this building is
predominantly masonry (only 30% of
the outside is glass) and revives a
classical architectural vocabulary…
Johnson & his associates divided
the building into three parts,
reminiscent of the three elevations
of a Greek temple – base, column
and pediment.
Phillip Johnson, the AT&T Building
(New York), 1984. POSTMODERN
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The top slopes down like a pediment,
including a space in the middle known
as an orbiculum (similar to the look of
18th century dressers)
Thin strips of masonry that make up the
center resembles the fluting of columns
Phillip Johnson, the AT&T Building
(New York), 1984. POSTMODERN
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The entrance includes a massive
round arch, similar to a triumphal arch
or a Romanesque portal.
(Please note the modern-day looking
‘coffers’ and ‘rose window’)
Phillip Johnson, the AT&T Building
(New York), 1984. POSTMODERN
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Michael Graves,
Portland Public Services
Building, 1982.
POSTMODERN
POSTMODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
Michael Graves,
Portland Public Services
Building, 1982.
POSTMODERN
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POSTMODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
Home Design by Michael Graves
POSTMODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
Michael Graves, Team Disney – The Eisner Building, 1991. POSTMODERN
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POSTMODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
The Pompidou Centre is a multipurpose
structure. It contains a public library,
France’s National Museum of Modern
Art, a theatre and numerous halls. It
was named after the French President
Georges Pompidou.
Note that the building appears to look
“inside out”. All of the pipes and
supports are exposed, but color is used
with a purpose: for example, green
indicates water, blue indicates air
conditioning while the elevators and
escalators are red.
It demonstrates MODERNIST
architecture with its steel support beams
and functionality, but it’s mixture of
influences and lack of decoration and
make it POSTMODERNIST.
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Richard Rodgers and Renzo Piano, The Pompidou Centre, 1977. POSTMODERN
POSTMODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
Rodgers and Piano, The Pompidou Centre, 1977
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Rodgers and Piano, The Pompidou Centre, 1977
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Rodgers and Piano, The Pompidou Centre, 1977
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Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997. DECONSTRUCTIVISM
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Frank Gehry used titanium
on the outside to imply fish
scales since fishing is a part
of bilbao’s economy. (Note
the long ship-like form of the
building, too.) This type of
work is often considered
deconstructivist since it’s
goal is to eliminate
continuous lines and normal
shapes.
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