The History of Postmodern ArchitectureThis first standard work on the past 25 years in postmodern architecture documents a rich and controversial period. It provides a fascinating, clear, and provocative definition of the phenomena of postmodernism, particularly in relation to the major ideas of modernism. Over 500 illustrations, including 96 in full color, are in themselves a substantial record of the aesthetic preoccupations of postmodernist architects, their patrons, and their detractors. Heinrich Klotz is one of Europe's leading architectural critics. In this panoramic work he challenges popular notions of postmodernism as synonymous with the stylistic license of eclecticism. He seeks to clarify the postmodern in other than stylistic, historic, or regional terms and identifies a long tradition of canonical, "modern" buildings which were breaking ground for what would become "postmodern" long before the word existed. His criteria for what defines postmodern will be challenged, debated, and quoted by historians and architects alike. Klotz focuses both on architects' individual projects and their work as a whole, combining structural analysis with an assessment of programmatic and philosophical content. "Not only function, but also fiction!": that is the guiding concept of this book. His approach leads quite naturally to a gallery of celebrities from the modern as well as the postmodern period: Mies, Kahn, Venturi, Moore, Ungers, Rossi, Stirling, Hollein, Gehry, Graves, Meier, Hedjuk, Eisenman, Botta, Krier, and Stern among them. Also included are a host of less well-known contemporary practitioners including Rem Koolhas, Thomas Gordon Smith, and Maurice Culot. Heinrich Klotz is Professor at the University of Marburg and Director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, the most distinguished showcase of contemporary architectural exhibitions in Europe. He is the author of 14 books, founder and editor of Architecturamagazine, the Jahrbuch fuer architecktur, and winner of the Schinkel prize of the German Society of Architects. |
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... narrative . They are the repository of forms , the potential raw material of architectonic representation . This is why the pluralism of styles is not the most appropriate formulation of postmod- ernism . What does adequately define ...
... narrative . They are the repository of forms , the potential raw material of architectonic representation . This is why the pluralism of styles is not the most appropriate formulation of postmod- ernism . What does adequately define ...
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... narrative range of Kresge College extends from the trivial monumental- ity of the telephone booth with giant ears all the way to the octagonal courtyard's sense of permanence and embrace . With Kresge College , Moore managed to create ...
... narrative range of Kresge College extends from the trivial monumental- ity of the telephone booth with giant ears all the way to the octagonal courtyard's sense of permanence and embrace . With Kresge College , Moore managed to create ...
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... narrative representation of the relationship between itself and the approaching observer- an experience of constantly changing images and standpoints between sta- bility and lability . How strongly these fictional elements de- termine ...
... narrative representation of the relationship between itself and the approaching observer- an experience of constantly changing images and standpoints between sta- bility and lability . How strongly these fictional elements de- termine ...
Contents
THE LABORATORY STYLE Preconditions | 21 |
ROW HOUSES | 28 |
THE INTERESTING | 34 |
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Aalto abstract aesthetic Aldo Rossi Archigram architects articulated baroque Bauhaus become Berlin Botta Bruno Taut building's built Center Charles Moore chitecture classical modernism columns complex concept concrete construction contents contradiction contrast Corbusier Corbusier's created culture drawing elements environment facade fiction formal func functionalism functionalist geometry glass Grassi grid Gropius ground plan Hans Hollein Häring Haus-Rucker-Co high-rise historicizing Hollein housing block housing development housing project human idea individual International Style James Stirling Josef Paul Kleihues Kahn Kahn's Koolhaas lbid Le Corbusier Leon Krier means ment Mies Mies's modern architecture Modern Movement modernist monumental Moore's motifs Museum narrative Natalini Neue Bauen office building ornament Oswald Mathias Ungers postmodern architecture postwar present pure qualities Rationalism realized Rem Koolhaas representation Robert Venturi roof rows Scott Brown shape signs Smithson space spatial structure stylistic Superstudio symbolic tion tradition ture turned typology Ungers's urban validity Villa wall whole window York