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: 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. Michael Graves
Portland Building by Michael Graves (1982)
Humana Building in Louisville, Kentucky (1982)
Radisson Blu Astrid Hotel in Antwerp (1993)
The Denver Public Library by Michael Graves (1995)
IFC building in Washington, D.C. (1996)
Castalia building in The Hague (1998)
Michael Graves (1934–2015) designed two of the most prominent buildings in the postmodern style, the Portland Building and the Denver Public Library. He later followed up his landmark buildings by designing large, low-cost retail stores for chains such as Target and J.C. Penney in the United States, which had a major influence on the design of retail stores in city centers and shopping malls. In his early career, he, along with the Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier, was considered one of the New York Five, a group of advocates of pure modern architecture, but in 1982 he turned toward postmodernism with the Portland Building, one of the first major structures in the style. The building has since been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Charles Moore
Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, by Charles Moore, completed 1978
Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley by Charles Moore (1992)
Beverly Hills Civic Center by Charles Moore (1990)
The most famous work of architect Charles Moore is the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans (1978), a public square composed of an exuberant collection of pieces of famous Italian Renaissance architecture.