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WHAT IS POSTMODERNISM..?
Postmodernism is largely a reaction to
the assumed certainty of scientific, or
objective, efforts to explain reality. In
the postmodern understanding,
interpretation is everything; reality
only comes into being through our
interpretations of what the world
means to us individually..
Postmodernism relies on concrete
experience over abstract principles,
knowing always that the outcome of
one's own experience will necessarily
be fallible and relative, rather than
certain and universal.
IN RESPONSE:
AIMS OF POST-MODERNISM_______
NEO-ECLECTIC, WHERE
REFERENCE AND ORNAMENT
HAVE RETURNED TO THE
FACADE, REPLACING THE
AGGRESSIVELY
UNORNAMENTED MODERN
STYLES
UNINTERESTING, AND
UNPLEASANT
CHARACTERISTICS OF
POST MODERN ARHCHITECTURE:
SIMPLIFICATION OF FORM
ELIMINATION OF ORNAMENTATION.
DRIVEN BY TECHNOLOGICAL &
ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENTS.
EMPHASIS ON HORIZONTAL
& VERTICAL
LINES
FORM
FOLLOWED FUNCTION
HIS IDEOLOGIES
THE EMPHASIS ON ANGLES AND
SPACES DEFINED STIRLING'S STYLE:
A PREFERENCE FOR PRACTICALITY
WITH THE USE OF EFFECTIVE YET
SIMPLE LINES.
HE WAS AMBIVALENT TOWARDS THE
PRIMITIVISM, AND WHAT HE CALLED
THE DELIBERATE AND MANNERED
IMPERFECTIONISM OF LE
CORBUSIERS LATE WORKS
STIRLING SAID,I BELIEVE THAT THE
SHAPES OF A BUILDING SHOULD
INDICATEPERHAPS DISPLAYTHE
USAGE AND WAY OF LIFE OF ITS
OCCUPANTS, AND IT IS THEREFORE
LIKELY TO BE RICH AND VARIED IN
APPEARANCE, AND ITS EXPRESSION
IS UNLIKELY TO BE SIMPLE
NEUE STAATSGALERIE
GERMANY(1984)
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES:
THIS IS A STUDENT
RESIDENCE BUILT FOR
QUEENS' COLLEGE IN
ANSWER TO A WISH BY THE
CLIENTS AND A FEW
SUPPORTERS WHO "WANT
THE BEST BUILDING BY THE
BEST ARCHITECT TO
ATTRACT THE BEST
STUDENTS AND ALSO
RESEARCH FUNDING", ONE
THAT HE SAID HE DID NOT
WANT TO BE "BOXY AND
DULL BUT ADMIRED BY
ARCHITECTS."
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES:
MICHAEL GRAVES
The Walt Disney World Swan is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located
between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios behind Disney's BoardWalk Resortand across
from its sister resort, the Walt Disney World Dolphin. The Swan, which opened January 13, 1990
on Disney property, is not owned by the Walt Disney Company, but is instead owned by Tishman
Hotel Corporation and operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide under the Westin
brand.
The Dolphin and Swan share similar elements, but each has a distinctive appearance. The Swan's
main structure is a 12-story rectangular main structure with a gently arching top and two 7-story
wings on the Dolphin side. The main structure is crowned with two, 47-foot (14 m) tall Swan
statues. The colored faade is adorned with turquoise waves similar to the Dolphin's banana-leaf
motif.
SWANS
IN WALT
SWANS
IN WALT
DISNEYDISNEY
WORLDSWORLDS
SWAN HOTELSWAN
HOTEL
About building:
About building:
He strongly emphasized on
architecture history.
HIS PHILOSPHIES:
Piazza d'Italia
Restoration
In 2002 plans were announced to convert the by-then
vacant Lykes Center adjacent to the Piazza into a Loews
Hotel. The hotel's developers pledged $1 million to restore
the Piazza to working order, and Perez Architects was hired
to ensure a faithful restoration. In 2004, the fountain was
restored to operation, though the badly deteriorated
campanile on the site's extreme periphery was removed.
The owners of the Loews Hotel currently lease the surface
parking lot next to the Piazza and intend to one day realize
the Piazza d'Italia's design vision of an urban "surprise
plaza", perhaps by constructing another hotel. Nothing is
imminent, however - given the state of the national
economy (2009) - and though the fountain has been
restored, the Piazza's design remains only partially
fulfilled.