Postmodern architecture emerged in the 1960s as a response to the perceived failures and blandness of modernism. Postmodernism rejected modernism's focus on function over form and the dismissal of ornament. Key figures like Robert Venturi argued for complexity and contradiction in architecture through works like "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" which called for "less is a bore." This helped establish postmodernism and groups like the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. Major postmodern architects included the "Whites" like Peter Eisenman who kept modernism's light aesthetics and the "Greys" like Venturi and Charles Moore who incorporated more decorative elements. Postmodernism peaked but then declined as it moved to absurdism and

1. POST MODERNISM
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2. POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE
The idea of post modernism in architecture
began as a response to the perceived
blandness and failed utopianism of the
modern movement.

3. WHAT IS POSTMODERNISM?
• Late 20th century movement in the arts,
architecture and criticism that was a
departure from modernism.
• Post modernist architecture was one of the
first aesthetic movements to openly challenge
modernism as antiquated

4. WHAT IS MODERNISM?
• Modern movement as established and
developed by Walter Gropius and Le
Corbusier, was focused on the pursuit of
perceived ideal perfection and attempted
harmony of form and function and dismissal
of frivolous ornament.

5. Characteristics of Postmodernism
1. There is no absolute truth
2. Facts and falsehoods are interchangeable
3. Frustrated with modern thinking
4. Rationalization is the norm
5. Global community more important than
nationalism
6. All religions deserve equal recognition
7. Morality is individualistic

6. What are the indispensable reasons of
beginning of this modern era?

7. • IN ARCHITECTURE
DECLINE OF ONE STYLE
BIRTH OF ANOTHER

8. • Early modernism rejection came in the 1960s
• Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture(1966) attacked the
institutionalized corporate modernism of the
International Style.
• ‘less is a bore’

9. ROBERT VENTURI
In 1966 Published
COMPLEXITY & CONTRADICTION IN
ARCHITECTURE

10. COMPLEXITY & CONTRADICTION
IN ARCHITECTURE
• “LESS IS BORE” replaced “ LESS IS MORE”
• Time to bring Richness & Delight in
Architecture
• Break away from the world of Dull Buildings.

11. • Marked beginning of New Era in Architecture.
• Initially in USA ----Then in rest of the
Industrialized World.

12. END OF MODERNISM
COMPLEXITY AND
CONTRADICTION IN
ARCHITECTURE
ADHOCISM SUPERMANNERISM
END OF MANNERISM

13. INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND
URBAN STUDIES (IAUS)
• Conceived By Peter Eisenman
• In 1967

14. ARCHITECTS OF IAUS
(THE NEW YORK FIVE)
1. Peter Eiseman
2. Charles Gwathmey
3. Richard Meier
4. Michael Graves
5. John Hejduk

15. GROUPS IN POST MODERNISM
• The Whites
• The Greys

16. THE WHITES
• Peter Eiseman
• Charles Gwathmey
• Richard Meier
• Michael Graves
Inspired by the White,
Light and Sleek
Architecture of Le-
Corbusier
THE GREYS
•Robert Venturi
•Charles Moore
•Robert Stern
Rejected the white and
light look of buildings in
favour of decorative
elements

17. WORKS OF THE WHITES

18. PETER EISENMEN
• IAUS
• Few private houses
Holocaust memorial

19. CHARLES GWATHMEY
• American architect
• Famous For Interiors
• Vacation Houses
• Restaurants
• Offices
• Apartments
Charles Gwathmey residence and studio

20. WORKS OF THE GREYS

21. CHARLES MOORE
• The Most Brilliant P-Modernist
• Author Of Many Books
PIAZZA D’ ITALIA NEW ORLEANS

22. ROBERT STERN
• Dean of the Yale School of Architecture
• Author
• Architect
• Preservationist
• Stern draws inspiration from early American
to late Deco.

23. Disney Feature Animation
Building, in Burbank

24. DECLINE OF POST MODERNISM
POST
MODERNISM
ABSURDNESS EXTREMES