Art Deco Architecture + Post-Modern style

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Art Deco

  • modernity & machines (industrialization)

  • eclecticism: drawing from different styles

complete opposite of Art Nouveau

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Art Deco example

Chrysler Building

  • curves, dynamic, triangles, energy

  • stainless steel - reflect light, machine-like

  • gargoyles

  • symmetrical

  • eclecticism: Ancient Egypt lotus, frozen NOT art nouveau

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International style + example

  • function > form

  • strong business / corporate image

  • clean, pure, standardized, serious, impersonal

  • new materials & open buildings up

ex: Seagram Building (light base, bronze, NO WALLS, windows!)

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Post-Modern Style

  • against impersonal nature of international style (no boring modernism)

  • causes freedom for architects to engage in playfulness & experimentation

  • playful & colorful

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Post-Modern Style examples

  • AT&T Building by Philip Johnson (rejects International style, HAS WALLS, fancy top - pediment with circle)

  • Basket Making Company

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Who was the “Queen of the Curve”?

Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid style + example

  • organic POWER and MOVEMENT

  • lack of corners & angles

  • ex: Cultural Center

  • ex: Sheikh Zayed Bridge (curves = waves)