Postmodernism

Carlo Scarpa
Castle vecchio
Verona
1959-1973

Does architecture as a mosaic of smaller things forming an experience instead of one big bold thing

fun landscaping

adapt and reuse

scarpa drawing

sketchy
plan and section on same page
colored pencils
not flashy architecture
layering of drawings

McCord Museum
Montreal
Percy Erskine Nobbs
1921

Not a scarpa but closest of what we have to one, layout wise

Canova Museum
Possagno, Italy
1957
Carlo Scarpa

Scarpa did an addition to this building

- left a small gap between both structures to let them have their moments

- harmonious modernism : modern elements and materials but don't clash with original structure

Hans Hollein
Schullin Jewelry Shop
Vienna
1979-1987

exterior reflects interior with organic jewel like facade

exterior is very flashy while inside is normal

Austria travel agency
Hans Hollein
1978
Vienna

"Robert Venturi "

"Less is a bore"

"Theory of or/and : people can have very different explanations of things no matter their social differences

Very into symbolism (duck vs decorated shed)

Start of more excentric architecture after more classical style that is modernism"

Smith House
Richard Meier
1984
Darien, Connecticut

not very post modernist even if post modern time

white, high tech with an access ramp high standard of detailing

Kunst Museum
Frankfurt
1981-1984
Richard Meier

Collides old and new unlike scarpa but wiht very minimal connection

extension as big as original

Cambridge University History Building
James Stirling
1968
Cambridge

Big atrium giving is a mall-like, consumerish experience

futuristic

What conservative force wanted post modernism to return to renaissance architecture? give an example of someone who resisted these forces

King Charles in 1987 founded his own school of classical architecture to go against the movement

James Stirling resisted this (Ex: cambridge university history building)

New Staatsgallery
1986
James Stirling
Stuttgart, Germany

New building looks at old
Colorful (pink and blue pipes, green lobby)
Entrance on the roof

OPPOSITE TO CLASSICAL

Altes Museum
Berlin
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
1830

inspired Stirling

James Stirling Drawing

Airbrush
Stipeling
very precise
colorful

Adolf Loos
Chicago Tribune Competition
1923

Very sarcastic building shaped like doric columns

looking at classical architecture in a contemporary way

Ideas like this are brought back in post-mod

AT&T building
1978
Philip Johnson
New York

Looks like sarcastic version of a chair in a huge size => Makes fun of the seriousnes

Like disney ant world, entrance makes people feel very tiny

Johnson admits he's a post-modernist

Mystery and Melancholy

De Chirico

1914

inspire entrance of AT&T building

Floating Pavilion
Also Rossi Venice
1979

Highly animated
Child-like drawing => unlike sterling's very precise drawings
conical shaped
roof primal shapes

rossi is more into history, less into sarcasm giving a serious look to buildings

What architects designed Alessi Kettles

Aldo Rossi Michael Graves

San Cataldo Cemetery (The city of the dead)
Modena
Also Rossi
1971

somber approach to the dead
look of socialist housing
remove hierachy of people when everyone is in the same size cubes

Brion Cemetery
1972
San Vito di Cadore
Carlo Scarpa

Zen sanctuary

private section of an italian cemetery => even has own chapel for the coupe burried there Wall with rings= wedding rings symbolism rough concrete (le corbusier inspiration) => scarpa like ziggurat way to end concrete

Choreographs way of walking

Gap between structures and in ground (very scarpa)

Not only structures but also though out ground work angled fence wall so people cans come in or out

scarpa loved it so much he's buried next to it

What's the similarities and difference between Scarpa's and Rossi's cemetery's

Same time period Same country Different values Different scale Diff looks

What are key poitn of Carlo Scarpa's architecture

He respects materials Romantic Historic forward (very post modernist) but introduces modern ideas Work like a mosaic of smaller things insted of one big extravagant centerpiece