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Part II
LECTURE 10
~CHARLES JENCKS
Metaphor
Culture based common symbols
Appropriation of symbols
Words
Architectural elements doors, windows, columns
Syntax
Grammar (System)
Semantics
Appropriate usage of symbols/words (Meaning)
History of Architecture - II (AP-313) Postmodernism
Image Source: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture ~Charles Jencks [pg 48-49]
METAPHOR
Image Source: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture ~Charles Jencks [pg 48-49]
METAPHOR
SEMANTICS
1. History
2. Pretty Drawings
3. Utility (Usefulness)
They say a building is good architecture if it works. Of course,
this is poppy-cock. All buildings work..merely that a building
works is not sufficient. You expect that it works.But when its
used as a crutch it impedes. It lulls you into thinking that that is
architecture
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6.
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Comfort
Cheapness
Serving the Client
Structure
Less is More
Barcelona, 1929
Duck
Meaning Conveyed by
Architectural Symbols
Decorated Shell
Meaning conveyed by
Signage
1966
~ R Venturi (1966)
FRANKLIN COURT
FRANKLIN COURT
Straight Revivalism
Neo-Vernacular
Radical Eclecticism
Post-Modern Classicism
STRAIGHT REVIVALISM
NEO VERNACULAR
Amsterdam Zwolle Housing, Aldo Van Eyck and Theo Bosch, 1975-77
RADICAL ECLECTICISM
POST-MODERN CLASSICISM
Straight Revivalism
Neo-Vernacular
------------------------------------Critical Regionalism
History of Architecture - II (AP-313) Postmodernism
POST-MODERN SPACE
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in
conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational
or transformational in its relation of parts to whole.
POST-MODERN SPACE
POST-MODERN SPACE
POST-MODERN SPACE
POST-MODERN SPACE
Pennsylvania, 2007
Massachusetts, 2008
London, 1980-87
London, 1997
SF, 1995
Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Museum_of_Modern_Art_in_2011.jpg
[Online]
Portland, 1982
RATIONALISM
RATIONALISM
Berlin, 1978
CHAPEL
Pennsylvania, 2010
Image Source: http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/63512/942422/Museo-Magazine-Venturi-ScottBrown-Episcopal-Academy-Chapel-2008_800.jpg [Online]
CHAPEL
Pennsylvania, 2010
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