| History and
Architecture: Post-modernism, Disney, and Beyond |
| Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction, 1966 |
| Vincent Scully with wife Catherine Lynn |
| Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, 1923 |
| Venturis principles |
| Ambiguity of perception: parallels in Op Art |
Venturi: Ambiguity: This or that to describe ambiguous relationships in architecture Ambiguity and tension are everywhere in an architecture of complexity and contradiction. |
| Venturi in practice: Vanna Venturi House, 1962 Classical elements re-examined on the faade; sign of house; atraditional plan |
| Vanna Venturi House: View from rear faade |
| Vanna Venturi House: Schemes IIIB (Section) and IIIA (Front elevation) |
| Vanna Venturi House |
| Venturi, Beach House project, 1959 |
| Sir Edwin Lutyens, Middlefield, Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, 1908 |
| Bruce Price, Chandler House and Kent House, Tuxedo Park, NY, 1885-86 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright, Wright House, Oak Park, Illinois, 1889 |
| Kahn, Esherick House, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, 1959-61 |
| Kahn, Fisher House |
| Quotations (Robert Stern, Wiseman House, Montauk, NY, 1966-67, and Johnson and Burgee, AT&T Building, 1984) |
| Venturi, Guild House,
1960-63 (Classical elements re-examined on faade; signage; TV antenna; contextualism) |
| How is history regarded? |
| Michael Sorkin, Variations on a Theme Park, 1996 |
| Entertainment Architecture: The World of Disney |
| Slide 25 |
| Epcot Center,Walt Disney
World, Orlando, Florida, opened in 1982 (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) Pavilion of Italy |
| Slide 27 |
| Collage in Canalettos Venice or Piranesis views of Rome |
| Slide 29 |
| Las Vegas: Theme park city |
| Michael Graves, Dolphin Hotel, Walt Disney World, Lake BuenaVista, Florida, 1987 |
| Michael Graves, Dolphin
Hotel, Walt Disney World, Lake BuenaVista, Florida, 1987 Blend of art historical references and Pop imagery: Berninis Triton Fountain |
| Michael Graves, Dolphin
Hotel, Walt Disney World, Lake BuenaVista, Florida, 1987 Pop images of palm trees and fruit |
| Michael Graves, Swan Hotel, Walt Disney World, Lake BuenaVista, Florida, 1987 |
| Michael Graves, Swan Hotel,
Walt Disney World, Lake BuenaVista, Florida, 1987 Stylized scroll |
| Michael Graves, Swan Hotel, Walt Disney World, Lake BuenaVista, Florida, 1987 |
| Michael Graves, Disney Headquarters, Burbank, CA |
| Robert Stern, Disney
BoardWalk, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 1996 Evoking a turn-of-the-century resort town |
| Town of Celebration,
Florida: An idealized vision of small town America |
| Town of Celebration,
Florida Michael Graves, Post Office |
| Town of Celebration,
Florida Philip Johnson, Town Hall Where you might expect rows of symmetrical round columns, Johnson gives crowded pillars |
| Town of Celebration,
Florida Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, SunTrust Bank |
| Town of Celebration,
Florida Cesar Pelli and Associates, the Googie Cinema |
| References |
| Charles Moore, Piazza
dItalia, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979 Perspective: Bulls eye ring Layered, complex, contradictions |
| Charles Moore, Piazza
dItalia, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979 South elevation with arch on Lafayette Street |
| Charles Moore, Piazza
dItalia, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979 Tuscan: unfluted column; Doric: metopes and stainless steel columns; Ionic: water in volutes; Corinthian: acathus-shaped jets; Composite |
| Charles Moore, Piazza
dItalia, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979 Andrea Palladio, Basilica (elevation), Vicenza, 1550 The arch-lintel combination, known as the Palladian motif and Serliana |
| Charles Moore, Piazza
dItalia, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979 Bold post-modernism: polychrome; distortions of scale; playful massing; unconventional combinations of materials; complicated waterworks , |
| Charles Moore, Piazza
dItalia, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979 , |
| Charles Jencks and
different strands of post-modernism he identifies six species in his evolutionary tree: |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montral, 1989 |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Photomontage by Gabor Szilasi, 1988 |
| Phyllis Lambert, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montral, 1963-68 |
| Rally in front of the
Shaughnessy House in 1973, protesting the demolition of historic buildings in
Montral Phyllis Lambert purchased the building in 1974 |
| Temporary scheme for the CCA in former Hudsons Bay warehouse, 1980 |
| Canadian Centre for
Architecture, Montral Massing models A, B, and C. Ridgway Inc. for the CCA, 1981 |
| Main floor plan for
Alternative C addition to the Shaughnessy House, Ridgway Inc., 1981 (Alternative C was the only 1 of the Alternative schemes to include floor plans) |
| Shaughnessy House at start of construction of the new CCA building, 1985 |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Shaughnessy House after restoration by Bilodeau St. Louis Architectes, 1989 |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 CCA construction site after completion of second vault floor, September 1985 |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Plan of the public level |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 North and south elevations |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Farm concessions in Montreal in 1660s and Cadastral lines |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Cadastral lines |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Maison-mre of the Soeurs Grises, by Victor Bourgeau, 1869-80 |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Cornice and frieze |
Shaughnessy House during renovations, 1987 Photos by Clara Gutsche |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Entrance court details: Materiality, 1989 |
| Peter Rose, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Montral, 1989 Scholars Wing, 1989 |
| Future CCA garden site, 1986 |
| Melvin Charney, Plan of the CCA Garden, 1988 |
| Melvin Charney, The allegorical columns of the CCA Garden, 1988 |
| Melvin Charney, The allegorical columns of the CCA Garden, 1988 |