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ARCHITECTS (and CRITICS) WHO HELPED BREAK THE MOLD OF MODERNISM

Modernism at its peak may have seen its best expression in the International Style and
its sleek, functional and structurally honest landmarks of Mies van der Rohe and his disciples.
Starting from perhaps 1968, when Robert Venturi declared his battlecry against the rigid dictates
of the International Styles Glass Box Less is a bore a batch of architects consciously
aspired to arrive at an architectural style distinct from the predictable and boring glass boxes
of Modernism. Arguably, these architectural styles and their proponents can be loosely classified
as Post-Modern.
ARCHITECT

WORKS

Archigram
Arquitectonica
Tadao

Ando

Ove

Arup

Ricardo

Bofill

Santiago

Calatrava
Coop
Himmelb(l)au

Ralph

Erksine

Peter

Eisenman

Lord
Norman

Foster
Future Systems

Frank

Gehry

Michael

Graves
The Grays

Zaha

Hadid

Helmut

Jahn

Philip

Johnson

Charles

Jencks
KPF (Kohn,
Pederson, and
Fox)

Rem

Koolhas (&
OMA)

Kisho

Kurokawa
Le Corbusier

Richard

Meier

Pacific Plaza Apartments,

Fort Bonifacio, Manila
Atlantis Condominium,
Miami Florida

BASIC CONCEPT AND

IDEOLOGY

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Charles

Moore
New York Five

I.M.

Pei

Cesar

Pelli

William

Pereira

Renzo

Piano

John

Portman

Kevin

Roche

Richard

Rogers

Paul

Rudolph

Moshie

Safdie
SITE
SOM
(Skidmore,
Owings, &
Merill)
Superstudio

Kenzo

Tange

Bernard

Tschumi

Robert

Venturi

Ken

Yeang