POSTMORDERN

ARCHITECTURE

SONY BUILDING
IN NEW YORK
CITY BY PHILIP
JOHNSON

INTRODUCTION

Began as an INTERNATIONAL style in

1950 -till

2
3
4
5

Evolved form the MODERNIST

MOVEMENT
Postmordernist buildings may
startle ,surprise and even amuse
Familiar shapes and eveas details are
used in unexputed ways

Buildings was incorporate symbols to make

a statement or simply to delight the views

Postmodern Features
Clash of scales

Postmodern architecture often

includes elements that are clearly
out of scale with the rest of the
building

The mixing of large and small

classical orders, the distortion
and exaggeration of motifs,
was making a building seem
dramatic and grand

Les Espaces
dAbraxas,
France, 1979-82

Thin
faades

Some Postmodern
buildings have thin fronts
that are clearly distinct
from the rest of the
buildings.
In some cases the
thinness is exaggerated
as a visual joke. For
example, the facade may
dissolve into the windows
at the side.

China
Wharf,
London,
,

1986-88

Classical references
Postmodern buildings often used elements of classical architecture.

Kengo
Kuma,
M2
Tokyo,
1991
Kengo Kuma, M2
Tokyo, 1991

ARCHITECTS OF POSTMORDERN
ARCHITECTURE
Aldo rossi
Michacl graves
Frank gehry
Robert venturi
Charles moore
Barbara bielecka
Terry furrell
Edward jones
John bavegee
Denise seon brown

INTRODUCTION
OF
POSTMORDERN
ARCHITECTS

Robert Venturi

Robert Venturi

In favor of
messy vitality
in architecture
Believed in
aesthetic
ambiguity and
visual tension
Poastmodern
vision: bothand rather
than either-or

CHARLES
MOORE
(13oct 192516 dec 1993)

BornDied
16 dec,1993
Austin,Taxas

31
oct 1925
Benton,
Michigan
Nationality
American

Projects

Sea
ranch ,California
Yale Building
project

Award

Famous building
Pizza dItalia
Haas school

AIA
Gold Medal
1991

LIFE
AND
CAREER

More graduated from the

university of Michigan in 1947.
Mastres and Ph.D at princeton
university in 1957.
During the Princeton years, he
designed and built a house for
his mother in Pebble
beach,California .
His thesis explored ways to
preserve and integreat
Montereys historic adobe
dwelling into the fabric of the
city.
His doctoral dissertation,
WATER AND ARCHITECTURE
was a survey of the presence
of water in shaping the
experience of place.

DESIGN
FEATURES

Moore preferred
conspicuous design
features, including loud
colour combination

Supergrapics

Stylistic collision

FAMOUS
BUILDINGS

Burns house at Santa monica

canyon California,1974
Hood museum of art at
hanover , New Hampshire 1981
to 1983
Moore house at Orinda,
California , 1962
Sea ranch at Sea Ranch ,
California 1964 to 1965

Piazza DItalia

PAIZZA D ITALIA
1975-77
New Orleans

Designed to provide the small Italian-American population

in New Orleans with an architectural focus of ethnic identity
It is more like a stage set than a building an open public
space lined with classically-styled fragments.
Which was part of the reason for the reference to the
Roman past (there is also a fountain in the shape of a map
of Italy).
The design is also littered with inside jokes, such as water
spouts in the shape ofMoores own face,
There was a newly designed order of columns (in addition
to the classicDoric, Ionic and Corinthian) that Moore
punningly called his Deli Order.

PHYLOSOPHY OF CHARLES MOORE

BAVBAVA BIELECKA