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Post modern ultra modern

One half modern and other half may be of traditional or regional language of architecture Reason for the hybrid- failure of modern architecture to communicate Need to use the traditional or local language and to keep up with the technological development Double coding, hybrid The reason behind the dualism Elitism and populism Pluralist culture Vs traditional culture Taste cultures - heterogeneity

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There is a Disjunction between the elites who creates the building and the public who use it Motive of the post modern architects is to deal with this disjunction Hence post modern architecture is doubly coded half modern half conventional in its attempt to communicate with the both the public and architects

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Post modern Vs late modern late modern

Late modern It keeps the commitment to modernist value technology, circulation and efficiency Pragmatic Post modern Emphasis the city context, value of of the user, perennial arch. expression pluralist

It is to keep the modernism alive

Distort to create he next transitional style Concerned about the importance of local traditions and used ornamentation But the role of art & ornament were different

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The first post modern building the Portland building by Michael graves

AIA called it as a dog of building, juke box, turkey,

Portland Keystone demand the attraction

Art, ornament, symbolism essential for architecture as it helps to heightens the meaning
Post modernist refused the bland, technocratic faade The main aim is to build the building with the art, ornament, symbolism and with the language locals can understand Sculpture in Portland building Portlandia - carrying trident and sheaf of corn flies over a Chinese rock (trade with the east) to crystallize meaning in away that is both modern and like ancient temple of artemis

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The death of modern architecture

Demolition of pruitt igoe housing complex Failure and demolition of Pruitt Igoe housing complex It was based on the CIAM principle and got award from AIA in 1951 Three essential joy of urbanism sun space and greenery 14 storey high rise building Concept of street in the air employed here safe from the car but not safe from crime

Crisis in architecture
Hotel culture Ancient style with the modern facilities

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Failure of hotels Penta hotel in London with the 914 rooms ten times larger than the hotels of then period How big is to big? Law of diminishing architecture for any building type there is an upper limit to the number people who can be served before the quality of the environment falls

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Problem with the large/ gargantuan scale of development

Requires huge corporate architects offices no one in the office know who is the client
Building is developed according to the formulae style and theme Buildings are produced for profit It is assumed the taste of user group would be similar and clich The major Crisis in architecture How the modern movement impoverished Language of architecture on the level of form Impoverished level of content Impoverished social goals for it is actually built

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Univalent form
Rational and universal style of Mies and his disciples- the use of few selected materials (steel and glass) Appropriateness and decorum in architecture what vitruvius and Luytens wanted to have in architecture Use of Curtain wall in housing lakeshore drive housing Seagram building I beam detail Office, housing wearing a similar look consequentially unarticulated on a higher metaphorical level Chicago civic centre In the most literal level the building does not communicate the function it houses Social and psychological meanings of this very significant building task Underlying ideology here is material and technology The modern movement is fetishes with means of production POST MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Mies and his IIT Chicago campus The factory classroom Chapel boiler house President temple school of architecture

All look like alike because of the sue of material

Mies fetish with proportion of beam to the I beam panel,Set back, glass area, articulation of lines His commitment to reductive formal values inadvertently betray the buildings

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Univalent formalist & inadvertent formalist F L Wright - Marin civic center Arches roman aqua duct Minaret Aztec, Mayan totem pole

Compelling, kitsch/ outlandish extravagance

Still does not convey the function it houses Lest with the works of I M Pei, Ulrich franzen, Philip Johnson, SOM architects always there is a striking form, reduced but potent image, erratic significance, unintended meaning

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Gordon Bunshaft & SOM Hirschhorn museum

White masonry cylinder Simplified from to communicate power, awe, harmony & sublime Concrete box to protect the art from the people? Aldo Rossi Italian rationalist designed neutral buildings with the zero degree of historical relevance The building is over simplified and monotonous fascist in character oppressive in meaning Semantically erratic

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Hermann hertzberger old age home

Many small scale places & closely grained urban fabric It communicates humanism, care intricacy, delicacy Alison and peter Smithson linguistic analogy in their work Royal crescent bath Portico as a metaphors for large doors Pediments as a metaphors for cheaper doors

They have realized that Architectural language depends on the traditional symbolism
They were in juncture to do something new avoid the censure of conventionality

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The reason behind the existence of ambiguity in the TEAM X work Believed in machine metaphor and at the same time believed in providing essential human values identity, personality, home coming It would not be possible to communicate all these meaning when new language based on machine metaphor is used Robin hood gardens - modern version of bath Streets in the air concept

The built form denied the all the value it has

Contradictions between statement and result reached impressive proportions in modern architecture May be due to fast changing society with its new materials ,new functions, technology Modern architecture design building for a mythical universal man

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Univalent content Monopolies and big business Architects become the liaison officer between the corporate giants and society Peter Behrens AEG turbine factory FL Wright Johnson wax building Bunshaft & SOM lever brothers office tower Euro Saarinen TWA terminal Expression of power and concentration capita

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Great work of European modern architecture Inception of industrial architecture

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International exhibitions and world fairs Technical triumphs of modern society in aesthetic and experience in architecture People focused only on their spatial and optical qualities but fail to understand the blatant nationalism and ersatz ambience it produced

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Factories and engineering feats

House machine metaphor

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