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1. Modern Architecture
Architectural History
ACT 322
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2. Topics
 Robert Venturi
 Charles Moore
 Hans Hollein
 Phillip Johnson
 James Stirling
 Aldo Rossi

3. Post-Modernism
 Major Architects
 Robert Venturi
 Charles Moore
 Hans Hollein
 Phillip Johnson
 James Stirling
 Aldo Rossi

4. Post-Modernism
 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
 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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7. Post-Modernism
 Charles Moore
 Another Post Modern architect who was a
contemporary of Venturi
 Affected by Louis Kahn’s feelings for the
architectural past
 Major structures
 Dormitory Complex, Kresge College, CA
 Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, LA

8. Post-Modernism
 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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11. Post-Modernism
 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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14. Post-Modernism
 Hans Hollein
 Austrian Post-Modern architect
 Designed the Austrian Travel Bureau in Vienna,
Austria

15. Post-Modernism
 Austrian Travel Bureau
 Located in Vienna, Austria
 1978
 Gains influence from the Piazza d’Italia
 Features
 Oriental pavilion
 Chessboard seating area

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17. Post-Modernism
 Philip Johnson
 The most powerful figure of American Post-
Modernism
 The reigning dean of American architecture
 Notable structure
 AT&T Building in New York City

18. Post-Modernism
 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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21. Post-Modernism
 James Stirling
 Designed a key work of Post-Modernism
 The expansion of the Staatsgalerie

22. Post-Modernism
 Staatsgalerie
 Located in Stuttgart
 Features
 Grand historical collage of structures
 Theater and museum
 Gains influence from Egypt, Mycenae, and the
Athenian Acropolis

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27. Post-Modernism
 Aldo Rossi
 A Post-Modern architect from Milan
 Enjoyed cult-figure status as the leader of the Neo-
Rationalists
 Poorly understood but widely admired group of Italian
architects
 Believed the architecture of a city is reducible to a
limited number of types

28. Post-Modernism
 Teatro del Mondo
 Rossi’s best known work
 A re-creation of the Theatrum Mundi
 Sixteenth-century floating festival theater in Venice
 Literally floats on the waters of Venice, Italy

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31. References
 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

32. Modern Architecture
Architectural History
ACT 322
Doris Kemp