Modernism-to-Postmodernism Architecture
Modernism-to-Postmodernism Architecture
Modernism-to-Postmodernism Architecture
HOA
History of Architecture
MODULE 2
Classical Architecture and the
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Revivalist
Architecture
Neoclassicism
■ Revival of using Classical orders as
decorative motifs during the 18th,19th until
the 21st century.
■ Simple, strongly geometric composition.
■ Shallow reliefs on facades. 2
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Romanticism
Turning to styles of the past to draw playful forms
that addressed the emotions. It allowed architects to
tailor historical styles according to the particulars of
building type and location.
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Gothic Revival
■ Revived the spirit and forms of Gothic
architecture.
■ Remained the accepted style for churches in the
U.S. into the 20th century.
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GOTHIC REVIVAL. (Rebuilt) Houses of Parliament, London. Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.
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Beaux-Arts
Eclecticism
■ Symmetrical plans and eclectic use of
architectural features.
■ Often gives a massive, elaborate, and
ostentatious effect.
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The McMillan Plan, a comprehensive planning document for the development of the monumental core and the park
system of Washington,D.C.
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An aerial view of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., showing the Lincoln Memorial at the bottom, the Washington
Monument at center, and the U.S. Capitol at the top.
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Modern
Architecture
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Industrial Age
▪ Began in Great Britain.
▪ Industrial revolution, vast economic and social
upheavals, stemming from mechanizationand mass
production, required new building types for industry,
commerce, and transportation.
▪ Material innovations: cast iron, steel, reinforced
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Industrial Age
▪ Innovations during the Industrial Age:
▪ Steam Power
▪ Machine tools
▪ Cement
▪ Chemicals
▪ Glass Making
▪ Paper Machine
▪ Textile
▪ Mining
▪ Transportation
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Brooklyn Bridge. JohnAugustus and Washington Roebling. (World’s largest steel suspension bridge.)
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Skyscrapers
▪ An American invention.
▪ The invention of elevator and more sophisticated
heating, plumbing, and electric lighting systems
made the higher spaces as accessible and
comfortable as the lower ones.
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Home Insurance Building, Chicago. William LeBaron Jenney. (Considered as the first skyscraper.)
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Louis Sullivan
▪ “Form (ever) follows function.”
▪ His greatest contribution to the skyscraper was the
organizing of its identical, stacked floors to express a
strong visual identity. (Three levels: base, shaft, and
top floor)
▪ Used nature-inspired or “organic” decorations to
humanize his imposing structure.
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Carson Pirie Scott Department Store (Sullivan Center), Chicago, Illinois. Louis Sullivan.
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Organic Architecture
▪ Promotes harmony between human habitation andthe
natural world.
▪ Materials, motifs, and basic ordering principles based
on nature.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan, New York City. Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Johnson Wax Company Administration Center, Racine, Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Interior of Johnson Wax Company Administration Center, Racine, Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Art Deco
▪ Also called Style Moderne.
▪ First appeared in France before the WWI
▪ Based on geometric motifs, streamlined and
curvilinear forms, sharply defined outlines.
▪ Uses bold colorsand synthetic materials (plastics).
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The American Radiator Building in New York City by Raymond Hood (1924)
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Art Nouveau
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Art Nouveau
Characteristics:
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Art Nouveau
▪ Germany: Jugendstil
▪ Spain: Modernismo
▪ Italy: Stile Liberty
▪ Austria: Sezession
▪ France: Le Modern Style
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Antoni Gaudi
▪ Combined Moorish and Gothic elements with
naturalistic forms, their textured, undulating shapes
recall waves, sea coral, and fish bones.
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Modern “-isms”
And Other Architectural Styles
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Expressionism
A European movement that generated jaggedand
dynamic forms in both painting and architecture.
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Principles of Expressionism
• Distortion of form for an emotional effect.
• Subordination of realism to symbolic or stylistic
expression of inner experience.An underlying
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• Profusion of works on paper, and models, with
discovery and representations of concepts
more important than pragmatic finished
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Principles of Expressionism
• Often hybrid solutions, irreducible to a single
concept.
• Themes of natural romantic phenomena, such
as caves, mountains, lightning, crystal and
rock formations. As such it is more mineral and
elemental than florid and organic which
characterized its close contemporary art
nouveau.
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De Stijl
■ “The Style”
■ Use of black and white with the primary colors
rectangular forms, and asymmetry (inspiredby a
Mondrian painting).
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Constructivism
■ Expression of construction was to be the basis
for all building design.
■ was a form of modern architecture that
flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and
early 1930s.
■ Emphasizes on functional machine parts.
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Constructivism Architects
■ Vladimir Tatlin
■ Konstantin Melnikov
■ Nikolai Milyutin
■ Aleksandr Vesnin
■ Leonid Vesnin
■ Viktor Vesnin
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■ Vladimir Krinsky
■ Iakov Chernikhov
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The Melnikov
House, Russia
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Mosselprom
Building
Moscow Russia
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Metabolism
■ A post-war Japanese architectural movement
that fused ideas about architectural
megastructures with those of organic biological
growth. It had its first international exposure
during CIAM's 1959 meeting and its ideas were
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tentatively tested by students from Kenzo
Tange's MIT studio.
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Nakagin
Capsule Tower
Apartments, an
Example of
Japanese
Metabolism.
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Organic Architecture
■ A building should be functional, harmonizes with
its natural environment, and forms an integrated
whole.
■ Shapes are often of irregular contours and
resemble forms found innature.
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Bauhaus
■ Bau (building), haus (house)
■ A school in Germany founded by Walter Gropius
■ Synthesis of technology, craft, and design
aesthetics
■ Emphasis on functional design (“form follows
function”).
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Bauhaus Architects
■ Walter Gropius (1883-1969) Designed Bauhaus Complex,
Desau (1925); MetLife Building, NYC (1963).
■ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Taught the Bauhaus's vorkurs; director
of New Bauhaus (1937-8), Chicago.
■ Hannes Meyer (1889-1954) Swiss Marxist Professor of 36
architecture, later director, at the Bauhaus.
■ • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) Succeeded Meyer
as director of the Bauhaus in 1930.
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International Style
■ Functional architecture devoid of regional
characteristics.
■ Simple geometric forms, large untextured
surfaces (often white), large areas of glass, and
general use of steel or reinforced concrete
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construction.
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Le Corbusier
▪ Charles Edouard Jeanneret
▪ “The house is a machine for living in.”
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Villa Savoye, Poissy, France. Le Corbusier. (Reflected the architect’s five points of architecture)
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Unité d'Habitation, Marseille, France. Le Corbusier. (An apartment block with 23 different unit types)
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Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France. Le Corbusier. (More complex, sculptural shapes in concrete.)
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Postmodernism
▪ A renewed appreciation for the rich traditions of
architecture past.
▪ Architects began enlivening facades with color,
pattern, and ornaments.
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Postmodern Architects
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Alvar Aalto
▪ “Nature, not the machine, should serve as the model
for architecture.”
▪ Finnish architect; one of the first modernists to fuse
technology with craft.
▪ Humanized modernism with curved walls and roofs
and wood-finished interiors. He was also sensitive to
the contours of the land and to a building’s orientation
to daylight.
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Eero Saarinen
▪ Used advances in structural systems to create
sculpturally expressive buildings.
▪ His buildings followed a unique designdirection
according to the particulars of their site and purpose.
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Louis Kahn
▪ “Architectural form should reflect a building’s social
purpose.”
▪ His work is often compared to ancient monuments.
▪ Composed of circles, squares, and triangles, his
designs were constructed of rough concrete and brick
to convey a massive primal quality.
▪ Daylight played an important role in his buildings.
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Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Louis Kahn. (Exemplifies his mastery of natural illumination.)
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Richards Medical Research Building, Pennsylvania. Louis Kahn. (Divided clustered towers into “served” and “servant”
spaces, an architectural principle that is still followed today.)
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Robert Venturi
▪ “Less is a bore.”
▪ Suggested that architects should embrace ambiguity,
decoration, and “messy vitality” in their buildings.
▪ His vision was an architecture of “both-and” rather
than “either-or.” This led to the development of a more
pluralistic attitude towards architecture that still
prevails today.
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Philip Johnson
▪ Once an advocate of the International Style, became
one of postmodernism’s biggest promoters.
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James Stirling
▪ Proponent of New Brutalism and high-tech.
▪ He sculpted his buildings to convey solidity.
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Michael Graves
▪ Incorporated decorative, historical references within
his abstract designs.
▪ His architecture often has a childlike, cartoonish
quality, shown to exaggerated effect.
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Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Richard Meier. (A cultural acropolis of six building situated high above a Los Angeles
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Postmodern Styles
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Brutalism
▪ Inspired by the béton brut (raw concrete) used by Le
Corbusier in his later buildings.
▪ Used to describe massive modern architecture built of
reinforced concrete, with the concrete’s rough,
abrasive surfaces left exposed.
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High Tech
▪ Using the technology of building in a highly expressive
way.
▪ Pioneered by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, and
Renzo Piano.
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Centre Pompidou, Paris. Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. (The innards of the building are placed on the exterior.)
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Millenium Dome, London. Richard Rogers. (Spans 80,000 sq.m.; largest fabric-covered structure in theworld.)
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HSBC Building, Hong Kong. Norman Foster. (Mechanical ducts are kept hidden; prefers a slick, clean skin of metal
and glass that is articulatedby structure.)
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Deconstructivism
▪ Using bent, angled and exploded forms to represent
the uncertainty of ourtimes.
▪ Drew upon the literary theories of Jacques Derrida,
who holds that “there is no fixed truth but only multiple
interpretations.”
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Deconstructivism
▪ An iconic style of three-dimensional postmodernist
art, opposed to the ordered rationality of modern
design, Deconstructivism emerged in the 1980s,
notably in Los Angeles California, but also in Europe.
▪ Characterized by nonrectilinear shapes which
distort the geometry of the structure, the finished
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appearance of deconstructivist buildings is typically
unpredictable and even shocking.
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One World Trade Center; New York City. Daniel Libeskind. (The tallest skyscraper in the WesternHemisphere.)
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Blobitecture
▪ A style of postmodernist architecture characterized
by organic, rounded, bulging shapes, Blobitecture
(aka blobism or blobismus) was first christened by
William Safire in the New York Times in 2002
(although architect Greg Lynn used the term "blob
architecture" in 1995) the style first appeared in the
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Blobitecture
▪ Developed by postmodernist artists on both sides of
the Atlantic, the construction of blobitecture's non-
geometric structures is heavily dependent on the use
of CATID software (Computer Aided Three-
dimensional Interactive Application).
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The Sage Gateshead, designed by Sir Norman Foster as a City Hall, London by Sir Norman Foster
music center
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Green Architecture
▪ Sustainable design, considering land use,
transportation issues, energy efficiency, indoor
ecology and waste reduction when designing
buildings.
▪ Sustainability, to ensure that our actions and decisions
today do not inhibit the opportunities of future
generations.
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Notre Dame du
Haut,France
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Villa Savoye,
France
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UNESCO Secretariat
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Einstein Tower,Potsdam
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Falling Water,Pennsylvania
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Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum,
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Johnson WaxBuilding
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Geodesic Dome
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Bauhaus School,Germany
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Bank of China,Hongkong
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Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame & Museum,
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Portland Building,Oregon
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Habitat 67,Montreal
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End of Module 2
Part 3
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