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's wife, accomplished architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown, and Venturi wrote Learning from Las Vegas (1972), co-authored with Steven Izenour, in which they further developed their joint argument against modernism. They urged architects to take into consideration and to celebrate the existing architecture in a place, rather than to try to impose a visionary utopia from their own fantasies. This was in line with Scott Brown’s belief that buildings should be built for people, and that architecture should listen to them. Scott Brown and Venturi argued that ornamental and decorative elements "accommodate existing needs for variety and communication". The book was instrumental in opening readers' eyes to new ways of thinking about buildings, as it drew from the entire history of architecture—both high-style and vernacular, both historic and modern—and In response to Mies van der Rohe 's famous maxim "Less is more", Venturi responded, to "Less is a bore." 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of his wife’s and his own buildings, Guild House, in Philadelphia, as examples of a new style that welcomed variety and historical references, without returning to academic revival of old styles.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.