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Post modernism

Eg: venture house


Symmetrical
Cubism being followed
A reaction against standard modernist
Flat roof pitched roof
All elements were used.
*clad bridges It is arranged in two 6 storeY wings linked by two glass
bridges, internal courtyard creating central plaza. Extensive brick work used.
Prominent use of landscape.

This type of elements were called hi tech phase.


Replacing unornamented l phase.
non orthogonal ,unusual surfaces.
Use of classical style in new combinations; pillars, arches, domes
Similar to old cathedrals driving the eye to the sky.
Windows: colors and shapes were added.
Modernism: human comfort,fuctionalism,economical,simplicity ,harmony of form
and function
Post: the body and the eye: aesthetics. .

NEOMODERNISM
After post modernism seeking greater simplicity
Design: monolithic and functional
Main element; form function not tobe go together.
Spaces not to be believed give beauty and joy.
FORM FOLLOWS FANTASY.
Free play of design.to detach architecture from function.
Eg;dancing house frank gehry
Features:
It explodes the form into loose collections of related fragments.
No right angle
No perfect form
Uncertaninty unease disruption
;no perfect form.
Bernard tschumi,frank o gehry,zaha hadid
Cleveland clinic las vegas

Use of diagonal lines. Integration of building with landscape.


Rotation at small
JVC entertainment centre
Corrugated steel sheets
Chain link fencing plywood
Zaha; bmw central building Germany
Use of light volumes,sharp angles spiral forms
Eg:museum of art in rme MAXXI Italy
Building can float and defy gravity.
BRIDGE pavilion Zaragoza spain
Galaxy soho in china
House peoples republic of china
Heydarr aliyev cultural centre
New centre innsburg Austria
Maggies centre at Victoria hospital kirkcaldy
Glasgow transport museum Scotland

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