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: Venturi cited the examples of his wife’s and his own buildings, Guild House, in Philadelphia, as examples of a new style that welcomed variety and historical references, without returning to academic revival of old styles. In Italy at about the same time, a similar revolt against strict modernism was being launched by the architect Aldo Rossi, who criticized the rebuilding of Italian cities and buildings destroyed during the war in the modernist style, which had had no relation to the architectural history, original street plans, or culture of the cities. Rossi insisted that cities be rebuilt in ways that preserved their historical fabric and local traditions. Similar ideas were and projects were put forward at the Venice Biennale in 1980. The call for a post-modern style was joined by Christian de Portzamparc in France and Ricardo Bofill in Spain, and in Japan by Arata Isozaki. Notable postmodern buildings and architects
Robert Venturi
The Guild House in Philadelphia by Robert Venturi (1960–1963)
Vanna Venturi House by Robert Venturi (1964)
Fire Station Number 4 in Columbus, Indiana (1968)
Carson Hall, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
Trabant Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE (1996)
Episcopal Academy Chapel
Frist Campus Center at Princeton University (2000)
Robert Venturi (born 1925) was both a prominent theorist of postmodernism and an architect whose buildings illustrated his ideas. After studying at the American Academy in Rome, he worked in the offices of the modernists Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn until 1958, and then became a professor of architecture at Yale University. One of his first buildings was the Guild House in Philadelphia, built between 1960 and 1963, and a house for his mother in Chestnut Hill, in Philadelphia. These two houses became symbols of the postmodern movement. He went on to design, in the 1960s and 1970s, a series of buildings which took into account both historic precedents, and the ideas and forms existing in the real life of the cities around them.