Post Modernism/Contemporary Design

Post Modernism was a style to replace the International Style which increased speed of communication by the use of magazines, books and the television.  Because of this effort, design work became an international profession.  Louis Kahn was an American architect who worked in the international style until his 50's when he became one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.  Cesar Pelli was also an American architect who designed some of the worlds tallest buildings such as, U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the NNT Building in Tokyo and the World Financial Center at Battery Park City in New York.  He also designed the tallest buildings in the world, Twin towers of Pelli's Petronas Center in Malaysia.




Contemporary Design introduced steel, concrete and glass as the basis for modern design.  Richard Buckminister Fuller,  Charles Eames, Norman Foster, James Stirling, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers are a few designers/architects and engineers of this time, just to name a few.  The Centre Pompidou is one of the best known hi-tech projects of this time. 




The New York Five refers to a group of NYC architects (Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier).  These 5 guys devoted the color white into almost all of their projects.

Deconstructivism emerged in the 1980s and 1990s seemingly breaking apart elements that were torn apart and reassembled in chaos.  Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, and Frank Gehry are a few architects and designers who were apart of the deconstructivism period.  Frank Gehry was the most important architect of our age.  The Dancing House in the Czech Republic is one of my favorite structures because it is so unique. 


Here is a video showing a few more examples of Deconstructivism design:

Modern Applications:

 

 

Discussion:

I looked at Emily N's blog and liked how she connected her trip to California with the school to buildings we talked about in class.  She also showed progressive steps of how some of the buildings were built in her pictures.  I also looked at Samantha's blog.  I watched her video about expanding on Contemporary design and thought it was a nice addition to her blog.