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Contemporary Architecture

The document discusses the evolution of architecture from Modernism to Postmodernism. It mentions influential architects and theorists like CIAM, the Smithsons, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi, Christopher Alexander, and their critiques of Modernism which led to new movements. These include Brutalism, New Theories, and later Postmodernism spearheaded by architects such as Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, and Zaha Hadid. It also discusses important works from these architects and the rise of Contemporary Indian architecture.

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Contemporary Architecture

The document discusses the evolution of architecture from Modernism to Postmodernism. It mentions influential architects and theorists like CIAM, the Smithsons, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi, Christopher Alexander, and their critiques of Modernism which led to new movements. These include Brutalism, New Theories, and later Postmodernism spearheaded by architects such as Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, and Zaha Hadid. It also discusses important works from these architects and the rise of Contemporary Indian architecture.

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CONTEMPORARY

ARCHITECTURE
Critiquing Modernism
CIAM

• Congres
Internationaux D’Architecture
Moderne
Brutalism
• Alison & Peter Smithson
• Team X –
The Smithsons
Aldo van Eyck
Jacob Bakema
New Thinking – New Theories

• Jane Jacobs
• Robert Venturi

• Christopher Alexander
• Aldo Rossi
Jane Jacobs

• The Death and Life of Great


American Cities, 1961.
Robert Venturi

• Complexity and Contradiction in


Architecture, 1966.
Christopher Alexander

• A Pattern Language, 1977.

Vol.1 The Timeless Way of Building.


Vol.2 A Pattern Language.
Vol.3 The Oregon Experiment.
AFTER MODERNISM

• Post Modernism
• Historic Revivalism
• Pop Architecture
• Critical Regionalism
• Deconstructivism
Post Modernism

Frank Gehry
Peter Eisenman
Rem Koolhaas
Daniel Libeskind
Zaha Hadid
Richard Meier
Kenzo Tange
Richard Rogers
Renzo Piano
Norman Foster
Frank Gehry
Bilbao
Dusseldorf Office Complex.

Gehry House
Peter Eisenman
A New Grammar
Eisenman’s Residences
Rem Koolhaas
S,M,L,XL
Seattle Public Library

Parc de la Villette
Daniel Libeskind
Jewish Museum, Berlin
Imperial War Museum, London

One World Trade Centre


Centre Georges
Pompidou,
Paris

Richard Rogers &


RenzoPiano
Lloyd’s Building, London.

Richard Rogers.
Olympic Stadium Kenzo Tange
Commerzbank, Frankfurt

Norman Foster
Reichstag, Berlin Norman Foster
Zaha Hadid
Petronas Towers, KL.

Cesar Pelli
TGV Rly.Stn, Lyon. Santiago Calatrava
Waterloo Stn. Nicholas Grimshaw
Parliament, Sri Lanka Geoffrey Bawa
New Gourna Hassan Fathy
Arcosanti

Paulo Soleri
Laurie Baker
Tadao Ando
Charles Correa

Asiad Village

Jawahar Kala Kendra


Kanchenjunga
Apts.

Navi Mumbai
Parliament Library
IIM Bangalore Hussain Gufa
Aranya NIFT Delhi
B V Doshi

Sangath
Achyut Kanvinde

IIT Kanpur

National Science Centre


India Habitat Centre

Joseph Allen Stein


Sher-e-Kashmir
Conference Centre,
Srinagar
Hasmukh Patel

Entrepreneurship
Development Institute of India
Anant Raje

Indian Institute
Of Forest Management

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