Area 1 Postmodernism Architecture

FOREIGN LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR ARCHITECTS
POST-MODERN ARCHITECTURE
(Identify and categorize historical structures and its parts that influenced the different styles of
architecture according to its culture, traditions and environments)
• Became a movement until late 1970’s and continues to

influence present-day architecture
• Belief that Early Modernist Architecture was impersonal
and sterile - soul-less and bland
• Complex and Eclectic structures
• accepts and embraces the “messy and chaotic” nature of
urban life heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and
reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of
the International Style
• References to architecture from the past
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FOREIGN LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR ARCHITECTS - 2013 Review Sessions
“NEO-ECLECTIC”
“GABLED ROOF”
“ROBERT VENTURI”
“NEO-ECLECTIC”
“GABLED ROOF”
“ROBERT VENTURI”
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(Utilize the comparative analysis of the architectural styles during the different periods through
the evolution of architecture of different periods and distinguishes particular architectural
style from another)
LESS IS MORE

style from another)
LESS IS BORE

style from another)
BEAUTY
STRENGTH
FUNCTION

style from another)
BEAUTY
STRENGTH
FUNCTION

style from another)
• Introduce ornamentation
• Sculptural forms
• Anthropomorphism
• Paradox and Irony
• Contextualism
• Playful extravagant forms
• Humour
• Double-coding

Pompidou Center (Paris)
Richard Rogers (British) and Renzo Piano (Italian)


• Cultural Center and Museum
• Building “turned inside out” with the water, electrical, etc.
pipes, ducts, and tubes on the outside
• Square in front of the museum popular place to “hang out”
• Reference to Eiffel Tower (structure visible)
• High-tech buildings are often called machine-like. Steel,
aluminum, and glass combine with brightly colored braces,
girders, and beams. The support beams, duct work, and
other functional elements are placed on the exterior of the
building, where they become the focus of attention. The
interior spaces are open and adaptable for many uses. The
High-tech Centre Pompidou in Paris appears to be turned
inside out, revealing its inner workings on the exterior facade.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (Hong Kong)
Norman Foster
the construction of the building relied heavily

on off-site prefabrication; components were
manufactured all over the world

Norman Foster

Norman Foster
• High Tech Architecture
• Supporting skeleton on the outside
• Computer programmed sun track which finds sun rays to
bring into the space
• Client wanted the most beautiful bank in the world
• All flooring is made from lightweight movable panels, under
which lies a comprehensive network of power,
telecommunication, and air-conditioning systems. This design
was to allow equipment such as computer terminals to be
installed quickly and easily.
• The construction of the building relied heavily on off-site
prefabrication; components were manufactured all over the
world
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry
• Art Museum (built for Guggenheim family – same as in New
York)
• Deconstructivist Architecture (concept of “taking apart”)
• Imbalanced and Asymmetrical Forms
• Sculptural
• Structure is covered in Titanium Steel
• The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to
appear random; the architect said that "the randomness of the
curves are designed to catch the light". The interior "is designed
around a large, light-filled atrium with views of Bilbao's estuary
and the surrounding hills of the Basque country."The atrium,
which Gehry nicknamed The Flower because of its shape,
serves as the organizing center of the museum
Milwaukee Art Museum (USA)
Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava
• Art Museum
• Organic / Sculptural Form (“bird-like” / “boat-like”)
• Kenetic Architecture (the roof moves – opening and closing
according to the weather conditions)
• Connects the building on Lake Michigan to the city with a
bridge
• The structure contains a movable, wing-like brise soleil
which opens up for a wingspan of 217 feet during the day,
folding over the tall, arched structure at night or during
inclement weather. The brise soleil has since become a
symbol for the city of Milwaukee.

Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid
• Demonstrates her technique of mixing polygons with triangular
structures, getting a sense of movement characteristic of her
designs
• It is a sealed building front, their interiors can only be sensed
from a perpendicular viewpoint. The resulting spaces, obtained
by using perforated walls, bent or broken, according to
functional requirements, provide fleeting vision of what is
housed inside.
• The entire building is freezing motion. This expresses the
tension of being on the alert, and the potential to explode into
action at any time. The walls seem to glide past each other,
while large sliding doors are literally a moving wall.

Zaha Hadid
• The partition is minimized, articulating the spaces with three
longitudinal stainless steel cabinets that separate the
transparent area of the service area.
• Blades or wedges are concrete walls and roof pitch in new
directions give a strong sense of the dynamism of this
reinforced concrete structure was created based on walls, in
spaces arise

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