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section 15a                                          1965-90

Deconstructivism
Peter Eisenman (born 1932)

Wexner Center for the Arts

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1989)

 
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Postmodernism
Charles Moore (1925-1993)
Piazza d'Italia
New Orleans, LA (1978)
 
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Jewish Museum Berlin

Design competition 1988-1989, construction through 1999

 

Daniel Libeskind (born 1946)

One of the first group described as deconstructivist at 1988 MOMA show in New York.

video & audio
photo sources

Roger Brown, 1993  "Talk Show Addicts"

critique in post-modern art   __school of art institute, chicago

 

Deconstructivism
Coop Himmelb(l)au established 1968

Ufa Cinema Center

Dresden, Germany (1998)

 
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Georges Pompidou Center

Construction 1971-1977

 

Renzo Piano   (born 1937)

Richard Rogers   (born 1933)

Gianfranco Franchini   (born 1938)

 

Considered postmodern and high tech

Exciting, open, multi-use,

Built after student and labor unrest in late 1960's France 

Required relocation of local markets

 

 

 

1960's France

French protest include students and workers, '68

 

Georges Pompidou Center, construction 1971-1977

new high tech, public architecture in Paris

(see description and video below)

 
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1960s change

'67 summer of love, vietnam war,

student unrest in US (& France including workers)

 

Drop City

Colorado, 1965

 

R. Buckminster Fuller  (1895-1983)

American Pavilion of Expo 67 (biosphere)

Montreal, Quebec (1967)

 

 
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