MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE

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MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
Less is MORE.
POSTMODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
Less is A BORE.
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Swiss architect Charles-Eduoard Jenneret, best
known as Le Corbusier, promoted the International
Style that the Bauhaus school helped to make
popular. His designs for buildings include
geometric shapes, maximum use of space, and a
lack of ornamentation. Le Corbusier referred to
his style as Purism because it relied on pure
geometric shapes. Villa Savoye is a country
house he designed supports his belief that a home
should not need load-bearing walls the steel
beams support the structure, giving it much more
space.
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929.MODERNIST
ARCHITECTURE(International Style)
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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929. MODERNISM
(International Style)
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A house is a machine for living.Le Corbusier
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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929. MODERNISM
(International Style)
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Le Corbusier, Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut, 1955.
MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE
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Le Corbusier, Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut, 1955.
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Le Corbusier, Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut, 1955.
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AT T Building Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson helped Mies van der Rohe design
the Seagram Building in the 1950s, but in the
70s he did the opposite with the ATT Building
(now called the Sony Building)
Phillip Johnson in 1978 with model of ATT
building
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Instead of a building made of sleek glass and
metal, this building is predominantly masonry
(only 30 of the outside is glass) and revives a
classical architectural vocabulary
Johnson his associates divided the building
into three parts, reminiscent of the three
elevations of a Greek temple base, column and
pediment.
Phillip Johnson, the ATT Building (New York),
1984. POSTMODERN
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The top slopes down like a pediment, including a
space in the middle known as an orbiculum
(similar to the look of 18th century dressers)
Thin strips of masonry that make up the center
resembles the fluting of columns
Phillip Johnson, the ATT Building (New York),
1984. POSTMODERN
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The entrance includes a massive round arch,
similar to a triumphal arch or a Romanesque
portal. (Please note the modern-day looking
coffers and rose window)
Phillip Johnson, the ATT Building (New York),
1984. POSTMODERN
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Michael Graves, Portland Public Services
Building, 1982. POSTMODERN
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Michael Graves, Portland Public Services
Building, 1982. POSTMODERN
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Home Design by Michael Graves
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Michael Graves, Team Disney The Eisner
Building, 1991. POSTMODERN
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The Pompidou Centre is a multipurpose structure.
It contains a public library, Frances National
Museum of Modern Art, a theatre and numerous
halls. It was named after the French President
Georges Pompidou. Note that the building appears
to look inside out. All of the pipes and
supports are exposed, but color is used with a
purpose for example, green indicates water, blue
indicates air conditioning while the elevators
and escalators are red. It demonstrates MODERNIST
architecture with its steel support beams and
functionality, but its mixture of influences and
lack of decoration and make it POSTMODERNIST.
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Richard Rodgers and Renzo Piano, The Pompidou
Centre, 1977. POSTMODERN
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Rodgers and Piano, The Pompidou Centre, 1977
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Rodgers and Piano, The Pompidou Centre, 1977
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Rodgers and Piano, The Pompidou Centre, 1977
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Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997.
DECONSTRUCTIVISM
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Frank Gehry used titanium on the outside to imply
fish scales since fishing is a part of bilbaos
economy. (Note the long ship-like form of the
building, too.) This type of work is often
considered deconstructivist since its goal is to
eliminate continuous lines and normal shapes.
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