Chapter 32e

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MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE

POSTMODERNIST ARCHITECTURE

Less is

MORE.

Less is A BORE.


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Swiss architect Charles-EduoardJenneret, best known as Le

Corbusier, promoted theInternational Style that the Bauhausschool helped to make popular. Hisdesigns for buildings includegeometric shapes, maximum use of

space, and a lack of ornamentation.Le Corbusier referred to his style asPurism because it relied on puregeometric shapes.

Villa Savo e is a countr house he

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye,

1929.MODERNIST


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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929.MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE (InternationalStyle)


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A house is a machine for living.Le Corbusier


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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929.MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE (InternationalStyle)


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Le Corbusier,Chapel of Ntre Dame du Haut, 1955.MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE


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Phillip Johnson in 1978

with model of AT&Tbuildin

AT & T Building

Phillip Johnson

Phillip Johnson helpedMies van der Rohe designthe Seagram Building inthe 1950s, but in the 70s he

did the opposite with theAT&T Building (now calledthe Sony Building)


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Instead of a building made ofsleek glass and metal, thisbuilding is predominantlymasonry (only 30% of the

outside is glass) and revives aclassical architectural

vocabularyJohnson & his associatesdivided the building into

three parts, reminiscent ofthe three elevations of a

Greek temple base,column and pediment.

Phillip Johnson, the AT&TBuilding (New York), 1984.

POSTMODERN
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The top slopes down like apediment, including a space in

the middle known as anorbiculum (similar to the look

of 18th century dressers)


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Thin strips of masonry that makeup the center resembles the

fluting of columns
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The entrance includes amassive round arch, similar to a

triumphal arch or aRomanesque portal.

(Please note the modern-daylooking coffers and rose

window)


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Michael Graves,

Portland PublicServices Building,1982.

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Home Design byMichael Graves


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Michael Graves, Team Disney The Eisner Building, 1991.POSTMODERN


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The Pompidou Centre is a multipurposestructure. It contains a public library,Frances National Museum of Modern Art, atheatre and numerous halls. It was namedafter the French President GeorgesPompidou.

Note that the building appears to lookinside out. All of the pipes and supportsare exposed, but color is used with a

purpose: for example, green indicates water,blue indicates air conditioning while theelevators and escalators are red.

It demonstrates MODERNIST architecturewith its steel support beams and

functionality, but its mixture of influencesand lack of decoration and make itPOSTMODERNIST.


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Richard Rodgers and Renzo Piano, The Pompidou Centre, 1977.POSTMODERN


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Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997.DECONSTRUCTIVISM


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Frank Gehry used titanium onthe outside to imply fish scalessince fishing is a part of

bilbaos economy. (Note the

long ship-like form of thebuilding, too.) This type ofwork is often considereddeconstructivist since its goalis to eliminate continuous linesand normal shapes.


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