VIC101H1 Lecture Notes - Yinka Shonibare, Frank Gehry, El Anatsui
14 Apr 2013
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Modernist characteristics: steel frame with flat roof; internal steel structure; rectangular; ability to have glass curtain wall (because of steel frame, don"t need something to hold up sides) Guggenheim - clean lines, flat roof, use of concrete = very important building material - early. Postmodernist characteristics (venturi 1966): less is a bore; wants to bring back ornament, necessity for ornamentation - not just beautiful, clean lines. Hybrid rather than pure elements; ambiguous rather than articulated; perverse and interesting. => better to have elements that don"t go together than be interesting; complexity and contradiction. Architect has to be sensitive to context - what goes on around the site. Modernist building: look at me, i"m alone; you don"t need to look at anything else. Postmodernist building: considers context, what"s around the site. Michael graves: rejection of modernist principles of 20th century; pyramidal shape/design format (classical architecture) Postmodernist architecture - wit, irony in design.
