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Department Architecture
Jane Jacobs
1916 – 2006
an American journalist, author,
and activist who influenced urban
studies, sociology, and economics.
Her book The Death and Life of
Great American Cities (1961)
argued that urban renewal did
not respect the needs of city-
dwellers.
post-modernism (meaning "after modernism")
Postmodernism is an academic and artistic description of things
that have happened in the second half of the 20th century, and
which largely exist as reactions against the goals of the early 20th
Post century.
Modernism In Architecture, Postmodernism describes the colourful styles of
architecture and the decorative arts that appeared in the late
20th century in reaction to Modernism.
The term “Post-Modern” is produced by Charles Jenks in his book
“The language of Post Modern Architecture” in 1977.
Postmodern architecture is a movement which emerged in the
1960s as a reaction against the formality, lack of ornament,
ignoring the history and culture of the cities , emphasized
function over form, and lack of variety of modern architecture,,
Its optimistic and idealistic views particularly in the international
Post Modern style advocated by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
It flourished from the 1980s through the 1990s, particularly in the
Architecture work of Dennis Scott Brown & Venturi, Philip Johnson, Charles
Moore and Michael Graves.
In the late 1990s it divided into a multitude of new tendencies,
including high-tech architecture, modern
classicism and deconstructivism
Post modern
architecture
Neo
Neo realism Contextualism
Rationalism
Architectural Style
An architectural style is
characterized by the features
that make a building or other
structure notable or
historically identifiable.
A style may include such
elements as form, method
of construction, building
materials, and regional
character.
Neo Realism
Architecture
Robert Charles Venturi
The trend was Jr. (1925 –2018) Books:
introduced by the Complexity and Contradiction
in Architecture in 1966.
architect and
Learning from Las Vegas 1972.
architectural
theorist Robert
Venturi in his
writings.
Complexity and
Contradiction in
Architecture
In practice, it meant the
rediscovery of the
various meanings
contained within the
mainly classical
architecture of the past
and applying them to
modern structures.
The result was an
architecture that
embodied historical
features and dashes of
humor.
Mother House
is located in the neighborhood
of Chestnut
Hill in Philadelphia.
It was designed by
architect Robert Venturi for his
mother, Vanna Venturi.
It was constructed between
1962 and 1964
Learning From Las Vegas
Ducks: “Where the
architectural systems of space,
structure, and program are
submerged and distorted by an
overall symbolic form.”
Decorated Sheds: “Where
systems of space and structure
are directly at the service of
program, and ornament is
applied independently.”
The duck takes its
name from an actual
duck-shaped
building: the Big
Duck located on Long
Island in New York.
The structure was
built to house a shop
selling ducks and
duck eggs.
The form of the building
itself explicitly tells
passers by what they
will find inside.
Instead of a building
made of sleek glass and
metal, this building is
AT&T Building predominantly masonry
(only 30% of the outside
Phillip is glass) and revives a
Johnson classical architectural
vocabulary.
(New York), The building is divided
1984 into three parts, as three
elevations of a Greek
temple – base, column
and pediment.