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The document discusses several major Post-Modern architects and their key works. It describes Robert Venturi and his Chestnut Hill House in Philadelphia, as well as Charles Moore's Dormitory Complex at Kresge College in Santa Cruz and Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans. Hans Hollein's Austrian Travel Bureau in Vienna is mentioned. Philip Johnson's AT&T Building in New York is discussed. James Stirling's expansion of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and Aldo Rossi's Teatro del Mondo floating theater in Venice are also summarized.

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Modern 4

The document discusses several major Post-Modern architects and their key works. It describes Robert Venturi and his Chestnut Hill House in Philadelphia, as well as Charles Moore's Dormitory Complex at Kresge College in Santa Cruz and Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans. Hans Hollein's Austrian Travel Bureau in Vienna is mentioned. Philip Johnson's AT&T Building in New York is discussed. James Stirling's expansion of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and Aldo Rossi's Teatro del Mondo floating theater in Venice are also summarized.

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Modern Architecture

Architectural History
ACT 322
Doris Kemp
Topics
 Robert Venturi
 Charles Moore
 Hans Hollein
 Phillip Johnson
 James Stirling
 Aldo Rossi
Post-Modernism
 Major Architects
 Robert Venturi
 Charles Moore

 Hans Hollein

 Phillip Johnson

 James Stirling

 Aldo Rossi
Post-Modernism
 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
Post-Modernism
 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”
Post-Modernism

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Post-Modernism

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Post-Modernism
 Charles Moore
 Another Post Modern architect who was a
contemporary of Venturi
 Affected by Louis Kahn’s feelings for the
architectural past
 Major structures
 Dormitory Complex, Kresge College, CA
 Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, LA
Post-Modernism
 Dormitory Complex, Kresge College
 Located in Santa Cruz, CA
 Resembles an Italian hill town

 Accented with bright , primary colors at strategic


places
Post-Modernism

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Post-Modernism
 Piazza d’Italia
 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
Post-Modernism

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Post-Modernism
 Hans Hollein
 Austrian Post-Modern architect
 Designed the Austrian Travel Bureau in Vienna,
Austria
Post-Modernism
 Austrian Travel Bureau
 Located in Vienna, Austria
 1978

 Gains influence from the Piazza d’Italia

 Features
 Oriental pavilion
 Chessboard seating area
Post-Modernism

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Post-Modernism
 Philip Johnson
 The most powerful figure of American Post-
Modernism
 The reigning dean of American architecture

 Notable structure
 AT&T Building in New York City
Post-Modernism
 AT&T Building
 Located in New York City
 Now known as the Sony Building

 647-ft

 Granite clad

 36 oversized stories
Post-Modernism

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Post-Modernism
 James Stirling
 Designed a key work of Post-Modernism
 The expansion of the Staatsgalerie
Post-Modernism
 Staatsgalerie
 Located in Stuttgart
 Features
 Grand historical collage of structures
 Theater and museum

 Gains influence from Egypt, Mycenae, and the


Athenian Acropolis
Post-Modernism

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Post-Modernism
 Aldo Rossi
 A Post-Modern architect from Milan
 Enjoyed cult-figure status as the leader of the Neo-
Rationalists
 Poorly understood but widely admired group of Italian
architects
 Believed the architecture of a city is reducible to a
limited number of types
Post-Modernism
 Teatro del Mondo
 Rossi’s 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
Post-Modernism

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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
Modern Architecture
Architectural History
ACT 322
Doris Kemp

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