Modern Architecture

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Robert Venturi Charles Moore Hans Hollein Phillip Johnson James Stirling Aldo Rossi

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Major Architects
Robert Venturi Charles Moore Hans Hollein Phillip Johnson James Stirling Aldo Rossi

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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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Chestnut Hill House

Designed by Venturi Located in Philadelphia, PA A conventional American suburban, stuccoed, wood-frame crackerbox Critics called the house ugly and ordinary

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Charles Moore
Another Post Modern architect who was a contemporary of Venturi Affected by Louis Kahns feelings for the architectural past Major structures

Dormitory Complex, Kresge College, CA Piazza dItalia, New Orleans, LA

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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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Piazza dItalia
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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Hans Hollein
Austrian Post-Modern architect Designed the Austrian Travel Bureau in Vienna, Austria

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Austrian Travel Bureau

Located in Vienna, Austria 1978 Gains influence from the Piazza dItalia Features

Oriental pavilion Chessboard seating area

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Philip Johnson
The most powerful figure of American PostModernism The reigning dean of American architecture Notable structure

AT&T Building in New York City

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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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James Stirling

Designed a key work of Post-Modernism

The expansion of the Staatsgalerie

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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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Aldo Rossi
A Post-Modern architect from Milan Enjoyed cult-figure status as the leader of the NeoRationalists

Poorly understood but widely admired group of Italian architects

Believed the architecture of a city is reducible to a limited number of types

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Teatro del Mondo

Rossis 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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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

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