HOA 106 1nd Edition Lecture 22 Outline of Last Lecture II Modernism Cont a Rejection of Abstract Expressionism Cont i New Realism ii Earthworks and Environmental Art III Architecture Outline of Current Lecture IV 20th Century 1980 Present a History and Ideas b Architecture c Sculpture Current Lecture Lecture 4 21 15 20th Century 1980 Present History and Ideas o Fall of communism o Rise of Muslim fundamentalism o AIDS o The Space Age o Information Explosion like tvs computer technology and sharing of information o Globalism Postmodernism Pluralism o Environmentalism Architecture o Venturi first post modernism architect References the past and present Buildings contain meaning with room for humor and irony These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Venturi Vanna Venturi House Chestnut Hill PA o o Moore with UIG and Perez Associates Piazza d Italia New Orleans Worked with a firm in order to produce this expensive space Built for the Italian community of New Orleans Pillars capitals and arches Looks similar to ancient roman architecture Red golden yellow and light blue Graves Portland Public Service Building Portland Oregon o o o o Cube singular shape Use different colors Looks like a child s building blocks Johnson and Burgee AT T Building currently the Sony building New York The top is shaped like an American Chippendale highboy a piece of furniture that has a scope in the top The base is shaped like the Pazzi Chapel with an arch Libeskind Jewish Museum Jagged zig zag shape References the Holocaust the zig zag shape is meant to represent a broken Star of David or an open wound Foster Swiss Re Building London Shaped like a torpedo Example of green architecture London s first environmentally friendly skyscraper Gehry Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles o Blue grey house with symmetric triangular shapes Breaks the code of the American Way houses Looks like giant stainless steel array of flowing shapes Consortium of Australian architects and Chinese engineers The National Aquatics Center Beijing Built for the 2008 Olympics Consortium group of architects and engineers Looks like a gigantic group of bubbles Rectangular shaped Light blue o Zaha Hadid Guangzhou Opera House China Very complex building Organic shape Sculpture o Humor and Irony o Gold and white sculpture of Michael Jackson holding a monkey Red lips Made of porcelain References pretentious celebrity culture The Body o Koons Michael Jackson and Bubbles Kiki Smith Untitled Beeswax sculpture of two figures looking down at the floor Represents the vulnerability of the body and the AIDS epidemic Sad somber tones Damien Hirst The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living Gigantic dead shark floating in a tank The artist wants viewers to confront death as well as the attempt to preserve animals and ourselves Social Commentary Maya Lin Vietnam Veterans Memorial Black granite surfaces reflects the faces of the living on a surface of names of the dead