a postmodern beginning: postmodern architecture's...
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A Postmodern Beginning:
Postmodern architecture's return of history through myth,
play, and context
focus on: -Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Venturi and Rauch, Plan and
Section, Vanna Venturi House,
Residence in Chestnut Hill, PA,
1960s
Venturi and Rauch, Vanna Venturi
House, Residence in Chestnut Hill, PA,
1960s, Postmodernism
“complexity and contradiction”
in 1963
Venturi and Rauch, Vanna Venturi House, Residence in Chestnut Hill, PA,
1960s, interior; interior detail- stairs and fireplace chimney compete,
Postmodernism
“complexity and contradiction”
detail
Paul Rudolph, Crawford
Manor, 1960s, modernism
Robert Venturi and Denise
Scott Brown, Guild House,
1960s, postmodernism
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans,
1960s, Pop art
James Rosenquist, F 111, 1960s, Pop art
Andy Warhol, Thirteen Most Wanted
Men, 1960s, Pop art
Modernist- looks more
advanced but it is just
poured concrete with
concrete block like Guild
House; pure form,
“structural purity”
Postmodernist- like the
subjects of Pop art, they are
common-place elements
made uncommon; mundane
made iconic!
Michael Graves, Public Services Building, 1980s, Postmodernism
In theorist Frederic Jameson’s “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late
Capitalism,” the postmodern condition is characterized by “Pastiche…an
aesthetic of quotations pushed to the limit; an incorporation of forms, an
imitation of dead styles”
Theorist Frederic Jameson’s “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late
Capitalism” argues that the postmodern condition is characterized by
“Pastiche…an aesthetic of quotations pushed to the limit; an incorporation
of forms, an imitation of dead styles deprived of any satirical impulse.”
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Bruno/bladerunner.html
Pastiche
Jameson has derived his view of postmodernism from the field of
architecture: "It is in the realm of architecture . . . that modifications in
aesthetic productions are most dramatically visible, and that their
theoretical problems have been most centrally raised and articulated; it was
indeed from architectural debates that my own conception of
postmodernism began to emerge.” Jameson, Cultural Logic, p. 54