The document provides an overview of postmodern architecture as a reaction to the austere minimalism of modernism, highlighting its characteristics such as playful forms, color, and the incorporation of classical elements. It discusses notable architects like Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry, along with significant examples such as the Vanna Venturi House and the Portland Building. Additionally, it contrasts postmodernism with modernism regarding their design philosophies and cultural significance.

1. Post-Modern
Movement
BY :DERIN MHAMAD SAEED
SUPERVISED BY: DR. WRYA SABIR

2. 1- Introduction of postmodern
2-Charaecterstics
3-Elements
4-Notable architects
5 - p o s t m o d e r n e x a m p l e s
6 - p o s t m o d e r n v s . m o d e r n
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3. Postmodern introduction
Postmodern architecture was conceived as a critical response to modernist
architecture.
In the 1960s and ’70s, postmodern architects became disappointed by the austere
minimalism of modernism, also known then as the International Style. Whereas
modern architects rejected the ornamentation of earlier architectural styles,
postmodern architects embraced classical architecture and blended it with
modern elements to create wholly unique structures..

4. Mixtures of architectural styles and
periods
Frequent of bright color, sometimes
in the form of ceramic tiles or
colored glass
Liberal use of classical
ornamental details taken from
past architectural movements,
often mixed and matched in
unconventional ways
Key Characteristics of Postmodern Architecture
Characterized by playfulness,
whimsy, humor, irony
Use of optical illusion
Sculptural forms
Use of abstraction
rule-breaking forms that defied
the ideological codes of
Modernism

5. 1-Variety of materials and
shapes
2-Color
3-Playfulness
4-Classical motifs
4 Defining Elements of
Postmodern Architecture

6. Most Notable Postmodern Architects
2- Michael Graves (1934–2015)
3-Frank Gehry (1929–present)
1-Philip Johnson (1906–2005) 4-Robert Venturi (1925–2018)

7. Notable Examples of
Postmodern Architecture
1-Vanna Venturi House:
- American architect Robert Venturi built this house for his mother in the 1950s.
-It is credited with being the first postmodern residence in history.
.
Less is a bore.
Robert Venturi

8. 1-Vanna Venturi House:
-The home has many modern architectural
influences:
- like horizontal ribbon windows and
- minimalist facade.
-monochromatic blue exterior, framed archway.
- gabled roof mark the architect's departure from
modernism to postmodern architecture
rchitects: Robert Venturi & John
auch
ocation: Chestnut Hill neighborhood
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
opics: Post-Modernism, Symbolism
Architecture

9. -The interior layout of the Vanna Venturi
House is equally complex and
contradictory.
- Rooms are unexpectedly scaled and
aligned, creating a labyrinth-like
experience.
-The stairway, for instance, leads to a
dead-end

10. -The house’s complex design is a
combination of symmetry and asymmetry,
- conventional and unconventional geometry.
- The exterior façade is simultaneously
symmetrical and asymmetrical,
-with a gabled roof interrupted by a central
chimney.

11. Notable Examples of
Postmodern Architecture
2-The Portland Building, Designed by the Late Architect
Michael graves, 1982
-is a municipal office building in Portland, Oregon.
-that made waves for its unconventional use of color.
-surface materials.
-decorative flourishes
-Designed to evoke the image of a Greek pedestal,
- the four-sided, tan stucco facade rises from a tiled green base,
-stretching 15 stories tall and crowned with a sky blue rooftop.

12. The Portland Building, Designed by the Late Architect Michael graves

14. Notable Examples of
Postmodern Architecture
3-the AT&T Building American Telephone & Telegraph / (Sony Tower)
- the AT&T Building stood in stark contrast to the boxy glass-and-metal towers
- Regarded as the first Postmodern skyscraper,
- the 37-storey building
-featured a number of ornamental flourishes, from its granite cladding

15. 3-the AT&T Building American Telephone &
Telegraph / (Sony Tower) /1984

17. More Examples of
Postmodern Architecture

18. 1-MI6 building, London, UK |
Terry Farrell

19. 2-USA piazza d’italia , New Orleans
in 1978 /Charles Moore

20. 3-A House for Essex Wrabness,
United Kingdom/by Perry and FAT
Architecture.

21. 4-The Neue Staatsgalerie
Stuttgart, Germany /by the
British firm James Stirling,
Michael Wilford.

22. Less is a bore

23. Postmodernism
1-focusese on adding a sense of
uniqueness to the design
2-.aims to keep the cultural feel of
historic architecture
3-prefer to keep the feeling of the
past
modernism
1- focuses on implementing modern
element in design
2-aims to extract all the excessive
elements and unnecessary things from
design
3- center their philosophy on a vision
of the future

24. References:
-arch daily website
-dezeen website
-https://archeyes.com/vanna-venturi-house-by-
robert-venturi-complexity-and-contradiction/
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