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Modern Architecture
Architectural History
ACT 322
Doris Kemp
Topics
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Robert Venturi
Charles Moore
Hans Hollein
Phillip Johnson
James Stirling
Aldo Rossi
Post-Modernism
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Major Architects
Robert Venturi
 Charles Moore
 Hans Hollein
 Phillip Johnson
 James Stirling
 Aldo Rossi
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Post-Modernism
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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
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Was fed up with “the puritanically moral language of
orthodox Modern architecture”
 Believed “Less is a bore” not more as Mies had quoted
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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”
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Charles Moore
Another Post Modern architect who was a
contemporary of Venturi
 Affected by Louis Kahn’s feelings for the
architectural past
 Major structures
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Dormitory Complex, Kresge College, CA
 Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, LA
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Dormitory Complex, Kresge College
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
 Resembles an Italian hill town
 Accented with bright , primary colors at strategic
places
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Piazza d’Italia
Located in New Orleans, LA
 Designed by Charles Moore
 Designed to provide the small Italian-American
population in New Orleans with an architectural
focus of ethnic identity
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Hans Hollein
Austrian Post-Modern architect
 Designed the Austrian Travel Bureau in Vienna,
Austria
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Austrian Travel Bureau
Located in Vienna, Austria
 1978
 Gains influence from the Piazza d’Italia
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Oriental pavilion
 Chessboard seating area
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Philip Johnson
The most powerful figure of American PostModernism
 The reigning dean of American architecture
 Notable structure
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AT&T Building in New York City
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AT&T Building
Located in New York City
 Now known as the Sony Building
 647-ft
 Granite clad
 36 oversized stories
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James Stirling
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Designed a key work of Post-Modernism
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The expansion of the Staatsgalerie
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Staatsgalerie
Located in Stuttgart
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Grand historical collage of structures
 Theater and museum
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Gains influence from Egypt, Mycenae, and the
Athenian Acropolis
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Aldo Rossi
A Post-Modern architect from Milan
 Enjoyed cult-figure status as the leader of the NeoRationalists
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Poorly understood but widely admired group of Italian
architects
Believed the architecture of a city is reducible to a
limited number of types
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Teatro del Mondo
Rossi’s best known work
 A re-creation of the Theatrum Mundi
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Sixteenth-century floating festival theater in Venice
Literally floats on the waters of Venice, Italy
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References
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Sullivan, Mary; http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wdpt1.html
Trachtenburg/Hyman; Architecture: From Prehistory to
Postmodernity
Wodehouse/Moffett; A History of Western Architecture
Modern Architecture
Architectural History
ACT 322
Doris Kemp