Presented by :-Shivani Goyal

Post Modernism (neo – electic)

Postmodern architecture beganas an international style the first examples of which are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but did not become a movement until the late 1970s and continues to influence present day.

Postmodernism, is the term used to designate a multitude of trends: in the arts, philosophy, religion, technology, and many other areas.Royal Ontario museum, Toronto, Canada

POMO is the outcome of:

•Globalisation•Consumerism•Commodification of knowledge Everything served as a package to choose better.

POMO culture rejects the conventional stereotypes in favour of local and sub cultural influences.

POMO characterized by :Eclecticism ,Historicism, Humour, Irony, Ornament, Pastiche, Wit, Regionalism, COllage

POMO urban space culture is characterized by fragmentation• Self contained alternative• Rediscovery of the local

Post - Modernism

Villa savoye AT & T Building

The return of “wit, ornament and reference”

The function and formalized shapes and spaces of the modernist style are replaced by diverse aesthetics. Perhaps most obviously, architects rediscovered the expressive and symbolic value of architectural elements and forms that had evolved through centuries of building which had been abandoned by the modern style.

In Architecture POMO emerged out of

Disenchantment with Modernism

Urban Level : Failure to generate convincing urban development at the level of the city.

Building Level : Denial of effective communication as it failed to provide surprise and delight in architecture.

Who qualify as Post Modernist ?

Architect who

_Has evolved from modernism after having seen its inadequacies

_Opine that modernism failed to transform society

_Declared that modernism’s visual expression in the form of the international style was unappealing.

Two separate sets of responses can be identified

AMERICAN: Post ModernismEUROPEAN: Rationalism

POMO Limitations

_Limited repertory of forms

_ Spatial issues remain unaddressed

_Prettification of building façade

_Reliance on Modern construction materials and techniques

“POSTMODERNISM”

Need Of An All New Movement -

The post modernist movement began in America around in 1960s – 1970s and then it spread to europe and to the rest of the world.

Origins in the perceived failure of modern architecture.

Its preoccupation with functionalism and economical building meant that ornaments were gone away with and the buildings were cloaked in a stark rational appearance.

Many felt the buildings failed to meet the human need for comfort both for body and for the eye, that modernism did not account for the desire for beauty . The problem worsened when some already monotonous apartment block degenerated into slums.

In response, architects sought to reintroduce ornament, color, decoration and human scale to buildings.

Form was no longer to be defined solely by its functional requirements or minimal appearance.

DEBATE AMONGST MODERNIST AND POST MODERNISTS……

Modernist architects may regard postmodern buildings as vulgar, associated with a populist ethic. Post modern architects may regard many modern buildings as soulless and bland, overly simplistic and abstract.

Characteristics postmodernism v/s modernism

Modernism is rooted in minimal and true use of material as well as absence of ornament.

postmodernism is a rejection of strict rules set by the early modernist and seeks meaning and expression in the use of building techniques, forms, and stylistic references.

Le Corbusier, Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut,1955

Michael Graves, Team Disney –The Eisner Building, 1991

Columns came back into existence….

In Modern, the traditional column (as a design feature) was treated as a cylindrical pipe form, replaced by other technological means such as cantilevers, or masked completely by curtain wall facades.

The revival of the column was an aesthetic, rather than a technological, necessity.

Phillip Johnson, the AT & T Building (New York), 1984

Colors came back to the facade

Villa savoye

Piazza d’ Italia

Exteriors as a whole

Modernist high- rise building had become monolithic.

Postmodernist building were a stock of varied design elements for a simple vocabulary from ground level to the top,(tapering or “wedding cake “ design.

Illusionistic building techniquesMichael Graves, Portland Public Services Building,1982.

Postmodernism buildings sometimes utilize trompe l’oeil, creating the illusion of space or depths where none actually exist, as has been done by painters since the Romans.

The portland Building (1980) has pillars represented on the side of the building that to some extent appear to be real, yet they are not.

Faces in front of the movement

Robert Venturi Philip Johnson Hafiz ContractorCharles Moore

Robert Charles Venturi june 25, 1925, Philadeplhia (U.S.)

Father of Post Modernism

The greatest architect of his time, picking up elements from the past and stretching them, and combining them in entirely new ways.

“Less is Bore”

Theorized the style

Celebration of the banal elements of the American urban landscape: billboards highways parking strips supermarkets

Building Techniques

Venturi’s architecture has had world-wide influence, beginning in the 1967s with the dissemination of the broken-gable roof of the Vanna Venturi House and the segmentally arched window and interrupted string courses of Guild House.

The façade patterning demonstrated a treatment of the vertical surfaces of building that is both decorative and abstract, drawing from vernacular and historic architecture while still being modern.

Other buildings Brant house, Connecticut Trubek & Wislock Houses, Massachussets Piazza d’ Italia, New Orleans Gordon Wu hall priceton

Vanna Venturi HouseConstructed between (1959-1964)

CHARLES MOORE

Moore preferred conspicuous design features:

loud color combinations

Super graphics

stylistic collisions

the re-use of esoteric historical-design solutions

the use of non-traditional materials such as plastic, (aluminized) PET film, platinum tiles, and neon signs

Ornament

Charles Willard Moore (October 31, 1925 – December 16, 1993) was an American architect

Piazza d’ italia, New OrleansCreation of drama through bright neon colouring contextualism

Moore’s circular piazza is based on the map of Italy, built up diagonally from the circle’s center to its circumference, a cascade of step like forms, making a rough contour model of Italy’s “Boot”.

A spectacular combination of classical façade, allegorical earth sculpture, and water.

Other works

Kresge CollegeHaas school of businessSea ranchBeverly hills civic centre

Philip JohnsonBorn - Philip Cortelyou Johnson July 8, 1906 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

Died - January 25, 2005 (aged 98) New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S.

Alma mater - Harvard Graduate School Of Design

Awards - Pritzker Prize (1979) AIA Gold Medal (1978)

Buildings – AT & T Building, IDS Tower, PPG Place, Crystal Cathedral

AT & T Building (New York), 1984

The building is a tall skyscraper which brings with it connotations of very modern technology.

While the top section conveys elements of classical antiquity.

Striking repetitive feature

Other works:Lipstick buildingThe CrescentTycon centreGate of EuropeChapel of St. Basil

Hafiz ContractorOnly architect to become a BRAND

First one to use colors in indian buildings

Creation of an architecture of fantasy

Architecture that belongs to another place

Context emerging from architect’s or client’s imagination & not from the locale

Skin deep approach

Fascade articulation

Detail modernist interior

IL AND FS CORPORATE OFFICE Hiranandini gardens, Mumbai, IndiaSome of his other works are:DLF Pinnacle, Gurgaon.Beach House, Mandwa. Vastu, Mumbai.Konark Estate, Pune. Hiranandani Gardens, Mumbai.Spagetti, Navi Mumbai.Gharkul, Navi Mumbai.