Post-Modern Appropriation

This movement is ______ Modernism. It is _____ as serious as Modernism, does ______ focus on function, and is a continuation of ______ _______ (more playful decorative). There are 4 themes: Appropriation, ________, Decontructionism, and ________

After; not; not; Pop Design; Brutalism; Blobism

Charles ______ wrote the book “The Language of Postmodern Architecture” in 1980. Instead of using form follows _______, there are new directions (appropriations, borrowings, __________, copying, simulation (simulacra)) that are based on memory, _________, irony, and ________. Memory is exemplified through the Mickey Mouse Watch by Michael _______. Metaphor is a _________ that suggests similarity of unlike things. For example, the Capitello Chair by ______ _______ in the 1970s, which is a reference to the _______ temple (______ is mediating between column and architrave). Irony is criticizing _______. For example, the table with socks by Ettore _______ in 1975 and rock furniture by Piero ______ in 1967. Ambiguity is a reference with an ________ identity. For example, a teapot by Ettore _______ in 1985, which is a reference to an ancient ________

Jencks; function; references; metaphor; ambiguity; Graves; reference; Studio 65; Greek; capital; humor; Sottsass; Gilardi; uncertain; Sottsass; ziggurat

_______ has 3 aspects: Borrowing, Reference, and Simulating. Borrowing is exemplified through the Mezzadro (sharecropper) stool by the _________ brothers in 1957. They took a stool from the John Deere ________ and recontextualized it (______ to room, industrial to _______). Reference is exemplified by the Capitello Chair by ______ ______ in the 1970s. It preserves the ionic order _______ from the Greek temple. It has cut high density latex _____. It was left ________ to expose the material. It was recontextualized from ________ to furniture, stone to ______. Simulating is exemplified by the Public Services Building in Portland by Michael _______ in 1980. The building is like a gift ________. To simulate is to ________, and it’s concerned with how something _______ looks. It was recontextualized from ________ as a decorated “box”

Appropriation; Castigiloni; tractor; agriculture; interior; Studio 65; capital; foam; uncovered; architecture; foam; Graves; box; copy; visually; architecture

Michael _______ designed Mickey Mouse products. He recontextualized the ears as a ______

Graves; handle

The ______ _______ designed the Conversation bed in 1981. The bed referenced a ______ ______, and it was recontextualized as a bedroom/bed to a sports ______. Studio Alchimia in the 1970s was ________ (beauty is not what they were after, but fun), and it focused on alchemy (to _______ a material). In 1980, Bob Dylan sang “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, and the group was renamed to ______ ______. It was anti-design (get ______ of the legacy of good craftsmanship. Get rid of the ________ of functionalism). They focused on ________ Design (as anti-design, as bad taste). One of the members, Ettore _________ coined the phrase “less is a ______”. Examples are the _______ patterns. They had ______ laminates, were simulcra, based on the ______ virus, were bacteria pattern to _______ pattern, and were recontextualized from surface of furniture to ___________

Memphis Group; wrestling ring; arena; anti-design; transform; Memphis Group; rid; anxiety; Recontextualize; Sottsass; bore; bacterio; plastic; HIV; laminate; bacteria

Ettore _______ designed the Valentine Typewriter in 1969, which was a Valentine card/envelope to ________. He recontextualized it to be _______ as trash. He also designed the Casablanca Sideboard in 1981, which references a _______. He stated that a ________ is a copy of a copy of a copy. It was simulacra. It had the _______ pattern

Sottsass; typewriter; message; movie; movie; bacterio

Philip ______ designed the AT&T Building in NYC in 1984. The appropriate was a highboy chest of _______. He recontextualized it to be architecture as _________

Johnson; drawers; furniture

I.M _______ created the pyramid entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1989. The appropriation was a _______ tomb from the Great Pyramids at Gizeh, Egypt. A tomb is a solid, _______ enclosure. The entrance of the building is open transparent ______, 71 feet high, and has 115 feet wide sides

Pei; pyramid; protective; glass

Philippe ______ created the Louis Ghost Chair in 2002. The appropriation was to the _______ of the 18th century chair (aka _______ XVI chair). He recontextualized it as ________ history

Starck; shape; Louis; transparent

Shiro ________ created the How High the Moon Chair in 1986. It was made out of _____ ______, named after a Duke ________ song, and the appropriation was a _______rise, song, sound

Kuramata; wire mesh; Ellington; moon

Gaetano _______ created the Up 5 Armchair in 1969. It was made out of high density _______, deflated into ______, automatically inflates upon _______, and appropriated to a ______ body. The ball and chain represents how a woman is confined, a ________ of herself against her will. He also created the Lady armchair in 1969, which the appropriation is the female anatomy to _______. He also created the Feltri armchair in 1987. It was made out of ________ felt and stiffened with ______ (it was flexible but _________). The appropriation was furniture covering to ________

Pesce; polyurethane; packaging; opening; female; prisoner; softness; industrial; wax; weight-bearing; clothing

Frank ______ created the Easy Edges Furniture in 1972. It was laminated, made out of corrugated ________, and the appropriation was ______ (packaging becomes the material). It had ______ edges, was ______ like, and reversal (_____ hard angles like the carboard box). He also created the Little Beaver Furniture in 1980, which was appropriated to gnawed, ______ edges. He also created the Power Play Furniture in 1992. It was made out of ______ wood, had _____ laminates, was ______ together, had a ________ covering, had a void, _______ interior, and was appropriated to _______ _______ (the basket weave referenced a mask, and a strip of maple referenced to skate line in ice)

Gehry; carboard; reversal; rounded; ribbon; no; raw; maple; molded; woven; basket-like; open; ice hockey;

Michael _________, ________

Graves; watch

______ _____, ______ ______, 1970s

Studio 65; Capitello chair

Ettore _________, ______ ______ _____, 1975

Sottsass; table with socks

Piero ________, ______ ________, 1967

Gilardi; rock furniture

Ettore _______, ________, 1985

Sottsass; teapot

_______ _______, _______ _______, 1957, 1971

Castiglioni brothers; Mezzadro stool

Michael ______, _______ ______ ______, Portland, 1980

Graves; Public Services Building

Michael ______, _______ ________, Burbank, 1989

Graves; Disney Headquarters

________ _______ with _______ _______, 1981

Conversation Bed; Memphis Group

Ettore ________, _______ ________, 1969

Sottsass; Valentine typewriter

Ettore ________, _________ _______ with “bacterio” pattern, 1981

Sottsass; Casablanca sideboard

Philip ________, ______ _______, NYC, 1984

Johnson; AT&T Building

I. M. ______, ______ _______ to the _______ ________, Paris, 1989

Pei; Pyramid entrance; Louvre Museum

Philippe ________, ______ _____ _____, 2002

Starck; Louis Ghost chair

Shiro ________, _____ _____ ____ _____ ______, 1986

Kuramata; How High the Moon chair

Gaetano _______, _____ _____ _______, 1969

Pesce; Up 5 armchair

Gaetano _______, ______ ________, 1969

Pesce; Lady armchair

Gaetano _______, ______ _______, 1987

Pesce; Feltri chair

Frank _______, ______ ______ _______, 1972

Gehry; Easy Edges furniture

Frank _________, ______ ______ ______, 1980

Gehry; Little Beaver furniture

Frank ______, _______ _______ _______, 1992

Gehry; Power Play furniture