LATE MODERNISM

I. M. PEI
PHILIP JOHNSON
JAMES STIRLING
HELMUT JAHN
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

LECTURE 8
SEMESTER 6
• Extension of Modernism

FEATURES OF THE LATE

• Anti-Box Approach – Get out of
the box
• Hypnotic effect, Repetition, use

MODERNISM
of skilful geometry
• Evolved from modernism,
overlooked the shortcomings of
modernist architecture – takes
care of human sentiment
consciously public acceptability.
• Late Modernism avoided the
international style that failed to
transform society and was
rejected by the 1960s.

ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM

 ARCHITECT’S INTENT
Charles Jencks (an American architectural theorist, landscape architect
and designer) defined Late Modernism as:

Pragmatic, Technocratic in the social ideology

and takes many of the stylistic ideas of
Modernism to extremes in order to
resuscitate a dull for dying language.

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Anonymous looking buildings have very ineffective communication :

MAKE them INTERESTING.
 SKY BUILDING COMPARED TO LAKE
SHORE DRIVE APARTMENTS
Lake Shore Drive Apartments
by Meis Van de Rohe
(Modernist style)
• Public was once again acknowledged as a
participant in the act of architecture, one
whose voice cannot be ignored.
• Late Modernism was determined not to be
boring like Modernism and made a
conscious efforts to be interesting always.
• Late /modernism aimed at reversal of
Modernist Box.
 MODERNIST BUILDINGS
• Sony Corporate Office, Japan

EXAMPLES OF LATE
• Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove
Community Church in California
By Philip Johnson

• Spiral Building, Tokyo

Art Center building - Many forms, composition of
habitable spaces

• Lipstick Building
Corporate Office by Philip Johnson, used an
elipse, plan elongated and then put back to set in
the same way
NOTABLE BUILDINGS
 OTHER BUILDINGS TO BE
• Corporate Office Building in Saudi Arabia
– Courtyard atrium, articulated façade.
• Five star Hotel by John Portman
• Convention Center in NY by I.M. Pei
• Engineering Building in University of Lester

STUDIED
• Pyramid at Louvre Museum, Paris
• Sony Headquarters in Berlin by Helmut Jahn
• Corporate Office of Insurance Company Headquarters – three
similar towers.
• Pianno Building (Cigarette manufacturing Company)
• Pompidou Museum and Cultural Center by Richard Rogers in
1972.