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Postmodern Architecture
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the International Style (architecture), international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. The movement was formally introduced by the architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown and architectural theorist Robert Venturi in their 1972 book ''Learning from Las Vegas'', building upon Venturi's "gentle manifesto" ''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'', published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1966. The style flourished from the 1980s through the 1990s, particularly in the work of Scott Brown & Venturi, Philip Johnson, Charles Moore (architect), Charles Moore and Michael Graves. In the late 1990s, it divided into a multitude of new tendencies, including high-tech architecture, neo-futurism, new classical architecture, and deconstructivism. However, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanna Venturi House
The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the neighborhood of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mother, Vanna Venturi, and built between 1962 and 1964. The five-room house stands only about 30 feet (9 m) tall, but has a monumental front facade, an effect achieved by intentionally manipulating the architectural elements that indicate a building's scale. Elements such as a non-structural applique arch and "hole in the wall" windows were an open challenge to Modernist orthodoxy, as described in Venturi's 1966 book ''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'' . Architectural historian Vincent Scully called it "the biggest small building of the second half of the twentieth century." Client and architect, mother and son The design of "Mother's House", as architect Robert Venturi frequently called the ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture
''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'' is a book by the American architect Robert Venturi. It was first published in 1966 by Museum of Modern Art in New York City and has since been translated into 16 languages, and is considered one of the most important works of architectural literature.Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'' ribabooks.com. Retrieved 26/11/2024. Architectural historian Vincent Scully has singled it out as "probably the most important text on architecture since Le Corbusier's '' Toward an Architecture'' in 1923".Charles Jencks. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Turns 50'' architecturalrecord.com. May 1, 2016. Retrieved 03/12/2024. ''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'' marks a turning point in American architecture and architectural theory. In the early 1980s, Philip Johnson declared, with extravagant insouciance: "Venturi is the most important architect in the world today... He revolutionized architecture with ''Complexity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisma 46
Wisma 46 is a 261.9-meter tall (architectural height) skyscraper located in the BNI City complex at Jalan Jenderal Sudirman in Jakarta, Indonesia. The 46-floor office tower features a antenna spire, and was completed in 1996 under the design by Zeidler Roberts Partnership (Zeidler Partnership Architects) and DP Architects Private Ltd. The tower is located on a 15 hectares lot in the city centre. It has a floor area of . The tower has 46 floors above ground which consist of offices only. There are 2 underground floors used for car parking. The tower contains 24 elevators, 6 of which can reach speeds of 360 mpm (meter per minute) in the super high speed models. Wisma 46 was the tallest building in Indonesia from 1996 until 2016, when it was surpassed by the tall Gama Tower. When measured up to the roof, the tower is tall and when measured up to the lower roof, it is only tall. Design This building has a modern design and also a unique appearance, which is curved shaped lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新, ''Isozaki Arata''; 23 July 1931 – 28 December 2022) was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist from Ōita, Ōita, Ōita. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University. Biography Isozaki was born in Oita on the island of Kyushu and grew up in the era of postwar Japan, the eldest of four children of Toji and Tetsu Isozaki. His father was a prominent businessmen. In 1945, he witnessed the destruction of Hiroshima on the shore opposite his hometown. When he accepted the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Pritzker Prize in 2019 he stated: "There was no architecture, no buildings, and not even a city. So my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and I began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities." Isozaki completed his schooling at the Ōita (city), Oita Prefecture Oita Uenogaoka High Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Bofill
Ricardo Bofill Leví (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from Barcelona. He founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. According to architectural historian Andrew Ayers, his creations rank "among the most impressive buildings of the 20th century." Early life and education Born in late 1939, just after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Ricardo Bofill grew up in a well-to-do family with deep Catalan and Barcelonese roots. His grandfather (1860–1938) had been involved in prominent local institutions such as the Institute for Catalan Studies, the , and the . His father Emilio Bofill (1907–2000) was an architect, builder, and developer who studied at ', Catalonia's oldest professional architecture school. Ricardo Bofill would later describe him as "republican, liberal, progressive, austere and logical." Ricardo's mother, Maria Levi (1909–1991), was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian De Portzamparc
Christian de Portzamparc (; born 5 May 1944) is a French architect and urbanist. He graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1970. His projects reflect a sensibility to their environment and to urbanism that is a founding principle of his work. In 1994, he was awarded the Pritzker Prize. Life and career De Portzamparc was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1944, when it was French Morocco, a French protectorate to a family of Breton people, Breton French nobility, noble descent. He began studying architecture in 1962 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was influenced by professor Eugène Beaudouin, who "encouraged his taste for formal expressionism", and professor George Candilis, who "emphasized systematic work on grids and networks." In 1966, he traveled to New York during a nine-month academic hiatus that was rooted in his hesitations about continuing in architecture. He remarked, “Architecture seemed to me to be too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), which are held in alternating years (hence the name). There are also four additional components, each usually held on an annual basis, comprising , , Venice Film Festival, and Venice Dance Biennale. Between them they cover contemporary art, architecture, music, theatre, film, and contemporary dance. The main exhibition is held in Castello, Venice, Castello and has around 30 permanent pavilions built by different countries. The Biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of its kind. Since 2021, the Art Biennale has taken place in even years and the Architecture Biennale in odd years. History 1895–1947 On 19 April 1893, the Venetian City Council passed a resolution to set up an biennial exhibition of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement. He was the first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize for architecture. Early life He was born in Milan, Italy. After early education by the Somascan Religious Order and then at Alessandro Volta College in Lecco in 1949, he went to the school of architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan. His thesis advisor was Piero Portaluppi and he graduated in 1958. In 1955, he had started writing for, and from 1959 was one of the editors of, the architectural magazine Casabella-Continuità, with the editor in chief Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Rossi left in 1964 when the chief editorship went to Gian Antonio Bernasconi. Rossi went on to work for Società magazine and Il_contemporaneo, making him one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mies Van Der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture. In the 1930s, Mies was the last director of the Bauhaus, a ground-breaking school of modernist art, design and architecture. After Nazism's rise to power, with its strong opposition to modernism, Mies emigrated to the United States. He accepted the position to head the architecture school at what is today the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Mies sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times. His buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He is often associated with his fondness for the aphorisms " less is more" and " God is in the details". Early career Mies was born March 27, 1886, in Aache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Izenour
Steven Izenour (July 16, 1940 in New Haven – August 21, 2001 in Vermont) was an American architect, urbanist and theorist. He is best known as co-author, with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, of '' Learning from Las Vegas'', one of the most influential architectural theory books of the twentieth century. He was also a principal in the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, where his father George Izenour, a theatre stage and lighting designer, taught at Yale University and later had a consulting firm. His mother was Hildegard Hilt. In 1964, Izenour married Elisabeth Margit Gemmill. Education and teaching Izenour studied art history at Swarthmore College and architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, before earning a Master of Environmental Design in 1969 at Yale University. After completing his degree at Yale, he ran the "Learning from Las Vegas" design studio for a time for Bob Venturi. Next he worked in Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deconstructivism
Deconstructivism is a postmodern architecture, postmodern architectural movement which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity, or symmetry. Its name is a portmanteau of Constructivist architecture, Constructivism and "Deconstruction", a form of semiotic analysis developed by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Architects whose work is often described as deconstructivist (though in many cases the architects themselves reject the label) include Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, and Coop Himmelb(l)au. The term does not inherently refer to the style's ''deconstructed'' visuals as the English adjective suggests, but instead derives from the movement's foundations in contrast to the Russian Constructivist architecture, Constructivist movement during the World War I, First World War that "broke the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Classical Architecture
New Classical architecture, also known as New Classicism or Contemporary Classical architecture, is a Contemporary architecture, contemporary movement that builds upon the principles of Classical architecture. It is sometimes considered the modern continuation of Neoclassical architecture, even though other styles might be cited as well, such as Gothic architecture, Gothic, Baroque architecture, Baroque, Renaissance architecture, Renaissance or even non-Western culture, Western styles – often referenced and recreated from a Postmodern architecture, postmodern perspective rather than as strict Revivalism (architecture), revivals. The design and construction of buildings in evolving classical styles continued throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, even as Modern architecture, modernist and other non-classical theories broke with the classical language of architecture. The New Classical movement is also tied to a resurgence in new traditional architecture, which emphasizes crafts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
