Title: Postmodern architecture - Wikipedia
Headings: Postmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture
Contents
Origins
Notable postmodern buildings and architects
Robert Venturi
Michael Graves
Charles Moore
Philip Johnson
Frank Gehry
César Pelli
Postmodernism in Europe
Postmodernism in Japan
Concert halls – Sydney Opera House and the Berlin Philharmonic
Characteristics
Complexity and contradiction
Fragmentation
Asymmetric and oblique forms
Colour
Humour and "camp"
Theories of postmodern architecture
Relationship to previous styles
Roots of postmodernism
Changing pedagogies
Subsequent movements
Postmodern architects
Other examples of postmodern architecture
See also
Footnotes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Content: Guild House in Philadelphia by Robert Venturi; Center: 550 Madison Avenue by Philip Johnson: Center right: PPG Place in Pittsburgh by Philip Johnson: Bottom: Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans by Charles Moore
Years active
1960-2000s
Country
international
Influences
international style
Postmodernism
Preceded by Modernism
Postmodernity
Hypermodernity
Metamodernism
Posthumanism
Postmaterialism
Post-postmodernism
Post-structuralism
Fields
anthropology
archaeology
architecture
art
criminology
dance
feminism
film
literature ( picture books)
music
philosophy
anarchism
Marxism
positivism
social construction of nature
social construction of gender
psychology
political science
theatre
theology and religion
Related
linguistic theory
linguistic determinism
semantics ( semiotics)
media studies
film theory
The medium is the message
Materialist feminism
Criticism of postmodernism
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Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. The movement was introduced by the architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown and architectural theorist Robert Venturi in their book Learning from Las Vegas. The style flourished from the 1980s through the 1990s, particularly in the work of Scott Brown & Venturi, Philip Johnson, Charles Moore and Michael Graves. In the late 1990s, it divided into a multitude of new tendencies, including high-tech architecture, neo-futurism and deconstructivism.