Post-mo
finally finished the influence avant-garde architecture, facing a new period of openness and innovation. The "Post Modern Architecture", as defined by Charles Jencks in his eponymous essay del'77, is mainly characterized by: an abandoned abstraction in favor of the rediscovery of popular figurative, greater importance of local context in the planning stages and a reinterpretation of the traditional urban models (like the square) .
first exponents of this new architecture, James Stirling and Hans Hollein are characterized both by a new attitude Mannerist. But while the first makes a formal research more monumental and diverse, both in materials and references, Hollein put to the test with underground structures and gives more drama to his work. Share However, the theme of the fragment and the ability to join in a new solution types and forms belonging to the repertoire of more or less recent past.
also because of the petroleum crisis cunt of those years, the race to expand stops and gives way to preserving what exists. In both urban and artistic. They begin to rise to new museums and refurbishing or expanding existing ones. Among those who realize there are those Stirling (State Museum in Stuttgart, 1989) and Hollein (Municipal Museum Monchengladbach, 1982), Zolley with its Museum of the Red Cross 85, whose glass surfaces stand out dramatically against the hill above (and in) which develops, Moneo with the Museum of Roman Art in Merida del'86, which mirrors the look of ancient Roman baths, and Pei with the new wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the '78.
And this building particularly impressed me. In addition to building relations with the opposite (west wing of the museum) with a detailed study of the visual, is arranged around a triangular atrium from the glass roof really interesting. The other rooms are distributed hierarchically around it, which, although excluded from view on the road, stands out all the rest thanks to the treatment of light. Enriched by a series of ramps and swings, this environment is the focus (as well as the bang) of the complex: the harmonious relations with the outside world, is a strong visual impact and takes into account many visitors to the museum, in a context so airy and pleasant can approach works of art without the usual onslaught boring and institutional.
National Gallery of Art Ieoh Ming Pei, Washington 1978 (video on Youtube )
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