AD 12500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: High Tech, Frank Gehry, Land Art
Document Summary
There is no good or bad design. Ugly and ordinary are a part of society. Spin off from mies vander rohe less is more . In the 1970s, the united states went through a period of slow building activity and high inflation. The energy crisis in 1973 1974 curtailed new construction and initiated energy conservation measures in building design. In the mid-1970s, a group of architects began to label this new movement postmodernism and attacked modernism"s principles with a fury. Robert stern (1938 ) designed a series of residences in the 1970s that brought back the familiar historical details, forms, classicism, and other applied ornamentation. Postmodernism caught up many established architects into new ways of thinking about design, as evidenced by johnson"s at&t skyscraper in 1978. High-tech: not all interior design and architecture since the 1970s has been primarily a reaction against modernism. For example, the pompidou centre in paris, executed in 1997 by architects richard.
