What does the post architectural era mean? What are the postmodern architectures

Post-Architectural Era:

The American architect Stern proposed that postmodernist architecture had three characteristics: the use of decoration; is symbolic or metaphorical; Integrate with existing environments.

It is generally believed that it was Venturi who really put forward a more complete guiding ideology for postmodernism, and although he himself did not want to be regarded as a postmodernist, his remarks played an extremely important role in inspiring and promoting the postmodernist movement.

Venturi criticized modernist architects for being so obsessed with innovation that they forgot that they were supposed to be "experts at keeping tradition." Venturi's approach to maintaining tradition is to "use traditional components and introduce new components appropriately to form a unique whole" and "combine traditional components through non-traditional methods". He advocated drawing on the techniques of folk architecture, and especially appreciated the spontaneous formation of the built environment on the commercial streets of the United States.

Venturi concludes that "for the artist, innovation may mean picking and picking from what is old and existing". In fact, this is the basic creative method of postmodernist architects.

Western architecture magazines hyped postmodernist architecture in the 70s of the twentieth century, but in fact, until the mid-80s, it was still a few representative postmodernist buildings, both in Western Europe and in the United States. Typical examples include the extension of the Ellen Museum of Art at Oberlin College in the United States, the Portland Municipal Building in the United States, the Telegraph Building in the United States, and the Philadelphia Senior Housing in the United States.

In 1976, the extension of the Ellen Museum of Art at Oberlin College was completed in Ohio, USA, and was connected to the old building, and the color and pattern of the walls echoed the original building. On one corner, isolated sits a wooden, deformed Ionic post, short, stocky, and comical, earning the nickname "Mickey Mouse Ionic Mouse". This treatment embodies the approach advocated by Venturi:

It is a fragment, a decoration, a symbol, and an example of "combining traditional parts in unconventional ways".

The Portland Municipal Building, completed in 1982, was the first large-scale official building of postmodernism in the United States. The building is 15 storeys high and has a cube shape. Externally, there are large plastered walls with many small square windows.

Each façade has some quirky ornaments, and between the neatly arranged small square windows are the large glass walls of the shape. There are also small houses with incongruous proportions on the roofs, which have been praised by some as "replacing the headless glass box with a metaphor for classical architecture".

The U.S. Telegraph Building was completed in 1984 by Johnson and is located on Madison Avenue in the bustling Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Johnson made the exterior of the high-rise building look like a stone building. At the base of the building there is a tall stone colonnade; A round arch in the center is 33 meters high; The top of the building is made into a gable with a circular notch, and some have described the roof as an old-fashioned wooden table clock from a distance.

Johnson explained that he intended to inherit the style of the old skyscrapers of New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Bauhaus school building was built with financial difficulties, and in the currency of the time, the cost per cubic foot of building volume was only in US dollars. Under such economic conditions, the building thoughtfully solves the problem of practical functions, and at the same time creates a fresh and lively architectural image.

Through this architectural practice, Gropius proved that after getting rid of the rules and regulations of traditional architecture, architects can freely and flexibly solve the functional requirements of modern social life, and can further give full play to the superior performance of new building materials and new structures, and on this basis, they can also create an unprecedented image of architectural art. The Bauhaus also showed that the use of function, materials, structure and the art of architecture can be combined to reduce costs and save investment. This is a multiple, fast, good and economical architectural design route, which meets the needs of modern society to build a large number of practical houses.

It may be an exaggeration to say that the Bauhaus campus marked a new era in modern architecture, but the building is indeed an important milestone in the history of modern architecture.