ARTH 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, Giant Order
6 Feb 2017
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Key points for today: complexity and contradiction in architecture, postmodernism, new urbanism, from fragmentation to deconstructivism Complexity and contradiction in architecture by robert venture 1966. Vanna venturi house, robert venturi, chestnut hill (pa), 1963. Image of domesticity: exterior symmetry, not articulated inside, playstairs in strange shape; for fun, allusions to history, thermal windows, sign = signifier/signified, using different signifiers for the signified - which is "the home" Philip johnson on the cover of time magazine january 1979. Portland public service building, michael groves, portland, 1978: more historical reference: giant order pilasters, keystone - all applied to the surface, model has the temple elevation, play on classicism. A case for figurative architecture by michael groves 1982: modern movement undermined the poetic form in favour of abstracted geometries, go back to the recognizable. Incorporate internal and external expressions: using figurative discourse to enliven and enrich architecture, gesture to the street that"s very articulate.
