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What are the most iconic buildings of postmodernism?

piero1910

I just want to know what buildings you think are iconic of postmodern architecture. Probably, Guggenheim Bilbao or one like that. Do you think the Walt Disney Concert hall is an iconic building?

 
Dec 14, 11 5:26 pm
piero1910

I tried to say contemporary buildings. 

Dec 14, 11 5:27 pm  · 
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drums please, Fab?

walt disney? yes

Dec 14, 11 6:02 pm  · 
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Dec 14, 11 6:38 pm  · 
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Adding to list

Dec 14, 11 6:56 pm  · 
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piero1910

No walt Disney. Walt disney concert hall in LA

Dec 14, 11 7:00 pm  · 
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OneLostArchitect

Walt Disney Concert Hall? How is that pomo? 

Dec 14, 11 8:38 pm  · 
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piero1910

Really good. I watch it every time

 

Dec 14, 11 9:16 pm  · 
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trace™

Fred and Ginger is pomo??

http://cdn.archinect.net/images/1200x/wm/wmhi5jhr0eniyg9v.jpg

 

Dec 14, 11 10:22 pm  · 
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citizen

On Fred & Ginger:

I never would have thought of that building as PoMo, but once I saw it, I concur.  A very, VERY Mannerist take on a common and traditional building type in Prague.

Having seen it, I now like it.

Dec 15, 11 2:41 pm  · 
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piero1910

ok

Dec 15, 11 8:52 pm  · 
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piero1910

I just want to know what buildings are iconic since 90s. Thanks

Dec 16, 11 12:06 am  · 
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oe

Do you know what post modern means?

Dec 16, 11 12:20 am  · 
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oe

Just kidding. Its a trick question. No one does.

Dec 16, 11 12:20 am  · 
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adobeisnotsoftware

Stirling's Staatsgalerie is among them.  It kind of made any later buildings unnecessary.

Dec 16, 11 12:45 am  · 
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drums please, Fab?

Do you know what post modern means?

everything after modern is post-modern

Dec 16, 11 10:20 am  · 
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  • I just want to know what buildings are iconic since 90s. Thanks
  • Do you know what post modern means?
  • everything after modern is post-modern

And now the thread gets interesting

Dec 16, 11 2:24 pm  · 
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Oh, and here's another for the list

Dec 16, 11 2:26 pm  · 
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citizen

Thanks for posting Piazza d'Italia, Brian.  I wanted to, but can't figure out how to post image links.  #$%@#$@!!

Dec 16, 11 7:46 pm  · 
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Pomo furniture category: SCRIPTOR by Leon Krier 

Dec 16, 11 11:29 pm  · 
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Pruitt–Igoe?

Dec 18, 11 11:44 am  · 
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TheMasterBuilder

You know, my professors in school showed us that Venturi house, and I still don't see what's interesting or unique about it.

My favorite post-modernist architect is Cesar Pelli, so anything he did would be considered good post-modernist architecture in my book.

Dec 19, 11 3:50 pm  · 
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This is what is interesting and unique about the Venturi House, and what makes it one of "the most iconic buildings of postmodernism."

In my book, you don't get much more iconic than the Portland Building, the AT&T Building and the Vanna Venturi House.

Edit: Nothing against Cesar Pelli, I have a soft spot for Argentinians.

Dec 19, 11 4:20 pm  · 
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drums please, Fab?

You know, my professors in school showed us that Venturi house, and I still don't see what's interesting or unique about it.

diagram it ..

Dec 19, 11 10:06 pm  · 
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Kos Scarpa Kos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8scKN4p3ZA

A video homage to postmodern architecture

Aldo Rossi (Teatro del Mondo) + Philip Johnson (AT&T) + Michael Graves (Denver Public Library) + Giovanni Paolo Pannini by Daniele Scarpa Kos

Dec 20, 11 7:51 am  · 
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homesower

Let's talk.  By iconic, do we just mean often photographed and talked about?  Or do we mean good, and worthy of emulation?

Consider the Vanna Venturi house.  I've seen it lots of times,  I thought it was a church.  Had you said, "No, its a community center" I would have believed it.  But a house?

There are some things I like about it.  I live clerestory windows and skylights, and it has those in abundance, but the facade...yechhh!  All that big blank wall with nothing to relieve the eye.  Its kind of like a guy who is all forehead.  And where is the homeyness.  Is there any girl out there dreaming of growing up and living in a house just like this?  I think not.

Okay.  It is time to crucify me.  But if you are going to do that share the wealth.  Come over to my site and leave some comments there.  I have a site dedicated to residential architecture.  I am just an amateur - a fan of architecture as it were, and I would love to have others, even those who have totally different opinions, drop by and leave comments.  You might check out my page on postmodernism at http://www.house-design-coffee.com/postmodern-architecture.html or, in case they strip that out just come to house-design-coffe dot com.  

BTW, don't take me wrong.  I actually like much postmodernism, but in extremis its arrogant, decadent and not very good.  Stata?  Come on, its like Gehry dropped his model and that is the way they built it.  Our senses rebel against the anarchy of his walls. Eisenman.  Please - his buildings are like a lecture telling me how much I suck.  I don't need to be deconstructed.  I need to live.

Dec 20, 11 11:57 am  · 
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iconic adj. Having a conventional formulaic style.

Not to be confused with ironic, which can also be used to describe postmodernism.

 

 

 

 

 

Dec 20, 11 3:07 pm  · 
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citizen

iconic    adj  
- relating to, resembling, or having the character of an icon 

icon       v
- a person or thing regarded as a symbol of a belief or cultural movement  

Dec 20, 11 3:13 pm  · 
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Kos Scarpa Kos

AT&T WHA?

http://tranqui3.blogspot.com/2011/12/wha.html

Dec 21, 11 9:00 am  · 
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toasteroven

I think the question should be "what are the most nostalgic buildings of postmodernism?"

Dec 21, 11 9:15 am  · 
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Kos Scarpa Kos

1 question...

Archirella rocks

Jan 14, 12 8:01 am  · 
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awaiting_deletion

respect go gondol3.

[img ]http://vuuve.com/images/2011-058-vuuve.jpg  [/img]

ok postmodernism (lets first see if my attempt at posting an image works)

 

 

Jan 15, 12 9:54 pm  · 
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awaiting_deletion

dam nit how do I post an image....i have sooo much more pomo to share

Jan 15, 12 10:03 pm  · 
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Kos Scarpa Kos

SUF1200 -  click on the image and go to  "View Image"

From there it will load it onto a new page. Then, all you have to do is go to the browser address area and copy and paste the web address of that image.

http://www.bustler.net/images/news2/michael_graves_2012_driehaus_prize_06.jpg

"Copy and paste" the web address of that image in "insert image" URL in Archinect...

Jan 19, 12 7:22 am  · 
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Kos Scarpa Kos

 http://www.vuuve.com/

I LUV Olaf Design Ninja...

Oct 2, 12 7:43 am  · 
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