Post Modern Architecture in Ohio

This is The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University and is a perfect example of Post Modern Architecture in Ohio. As seen in all three pictures there is a white awning like structure, but it does not have a roof. Other then hanging posters it has no functional purpose so it is ornamental. Another Part of this structure that makes it Post Modern is the series of columns that are located around the building that aren't holding anything up. Ornamental features are really the only way to definitively say that something is Post Modern, this building has many ornamental features, which make me positive it is Post Modern.
The The Wexner Center was designed by architects Peter Eisenman of New York and the late Richard Trott of Columbus with landscape architect Laurie Olin of Philadelphia. The Wener Center is used for art exhibitions, premiering of new and different kinds of movies and films, and for preforming the preforming arts. The Wexner center also awards the Wexner Prize to those artists whose work reflects exceptional innovation and the highest standards of artistic quality and integrity.  The Wexner center was built for use by the students of The Ohio State University and university scholars. The Wexner Center's main goal is to explore and advance contemporary art.

Source: http://wexarts.org/about/history

Computer Post Modern Model

This is a building that I designed in AutoDesk Inventor. It would be a skyscraper embodying the main aspects of Post Modern Architecture ( no strait lines, ornaments, and anything goes)  and is based of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur,  Malaysia.

Real Post Modern Model

Post Modern Paper

Andy Shepherd

4/3/2013

Geometry Art and Architecture

Postmodern Architecture

Postmodern architecture is the newest style of architecture following modern architecture.   Postmodern architecture first appeared in the1950 in America and soon moved to Europe,  but did not become a movement until the 70’s when writer and historian Charles Jenks first coined the term postmodern in a magazine.

     The movement started as a result of disappointment in the modernist movement.  People were disappointed by the fact that Modernism striped building of ornaments that created eye appeal and left only the functional parts of buildings.  To solve this problem architects merged aesthetics with functionalism.  One of the main principles of postmodern architecture is “anything goes” resulting in no set outline for architects to follow, but it does have common characteristics of pluralism, irony,  paradox, and contextualize.

     Postmodern architecture can be fairly easily recognized.  Although there is no set visual outline, the most common visual theme is rounded edges and curve or the absence of strait lines.  Other common themes are the use ornaments,  objects that serve no functional purpose at all only visual and the characteristics of pluralism,  irony,  paradox,  and contextualize;  for example a skyscraper with Greek orders columns.  The simplest way to recognize is if you can’t recognize it, this is because of the principle of “anything goes”. 

     The list of postmodern architects is slim, but the most famous of them is Robert Venturi.  Robert Venturi wrote many books such as Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, which encouraged people to think about buildings differently. Venturi also modified Mies van der Rohe’s quote “less is more” to “less is a bore”. Venturi started an architecture firm that designed buildings for colleges and in buildings in London and Japan. Another famous architect is Aldo Rossi. Rossi was born in Milan italy, in 1931 and studied at Politecnico di Milano. HE designed many famous buildings in Italy like the Teatro Carlo Felice, an opera house utilizing iron in its design.

 

     Some of the most famous postmodern buildings are:  the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur,  Malaysia designed by César Pelli and was the tallest building in the world from 1998-2004;  The Wells Fargo tower in Minneapolis and also designed by César Pelli;  and the Sydney opera house designed by Jørn Utzon.

Postmodern architecture can be described as the materialization of today’s diversity.

Sourses:

http://www.cockrams-surveyors.co.uk/blog/buildings/defining-postmodern-architecture-and-its-characteristics/

https://www.boundless.com/art-history/global-art-since-1950/architecture-1/postmodern/

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/14/arts/architecture-view-robert-venturi-gentle-subverter-of-modernism.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/architecture/2011/11/postmodern_architecture_its_most_important_legacy_.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_architecture

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