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Modern

Architecture
Architectural History
ACT 322
Doris Kemp

Topics

Robert Venturi
Charles Moore
Hans Hollein
Phillip Johnson
James Stirling
Aldo Rossi

Post-Modernism

Major Architects
Robert Venturi
Charles Moore
Hans Hollein
Phillip Johnson
James Stirling
Aldo Rossi

Post-Modernism

Robert Venturi
A great admirer of Louis Kahn
Post-Modern architect whose early works
were very influential in contemporary
architecture
Wrote Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture

Was fed up with the puritanically moral language


of orthodox Modern architecture
Believed Less is a bore not more as Mies had
quoted

Post-Modernism

Chestnut Hill House


Designed by Venturi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A conventional American suburban,
stuccoed, wood-frame crackerbox
Critics called the house ugly and
ordinary

Post-Modernism

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Charles Moore
Another Post Modern architect who was
a contemporary of Venturi
Affected by Louis Kahns feelings for
the architectural past
Major structures

Dormitory Complex, Kresge College, CA


Piazza dItalia, New Orleans, LA

Post-Modernism

Dormitory Complex, Kresge College


Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Resembles an Italian hill town
Accented with bright , primary colors at
strategic places

Post-Modernism

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Piazza dItalia
Located in New Orleans, LA
Designed by Charles Moore
Designed to provide the small ItalianAmerican population in New Orleans
with an architectural focus of ethnic
identity

Post-Modernism

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Hans Hollein
Austrian Post-Modern architect
Designed the Austrian Travel Bureau in
Vienna, Austria

Post-Modernism

Austrian Travel Bureau


Located in Vienna, Austria
1978
Gains influence from the Piazza dItalia
Features

Oriental pavilion
Chessboard seating area

Post-Modernism

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Philip Johnson
The most powerful figure of American
Post-Modernism
The reigning dean of American
architecture
Notable structure

AT&T Building in New York City

Post-Modernism

AT&T Building
Located in New York City
Now known as the Sony Building
647-ft
Granite clad
36 oversized stories

Post-Modernism

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James Stirling

Designed a key work of Post-Modernism

The expansion of the Staatsgalerie

Post-Modernism

Staatsgalerie
Located in Stuttgart
Features

Grand historical collage of structures


Theater and museum

Gains influence from Egypt, Mycenae,


and the Athenian Acropolis

Post-Modernism

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Aldo Rossi
A Post-Modern architect from Milan
Enjoyed cult-figure status as the leader
of the Neo-Rationalists

Poorly understood but widely admired


group of Italian architects

Believed the architecture of a city is


reducible to a limited number of types

Post-Modernism

Teatro del Mondo


Rossis best known work
A re-creation of the Theatrum Mundi

Sixteenth-century floating festival theater in


Venice

Literally floats on the waters of Venice,


Italy

Post-Modernism

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References

Sullivan, Mary;
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wdpt
1.html
Trachtenburg/Hyman; Architecture: From
Prehistory to Postmodernity
Wodehouse/Moffett; A History of Western
Architecture

Modern
Architecture
Architectural History
ACT 322
Doris Kemp

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