RAPA S.: POST MODERNISM

"LESS IS BORED"

ONE OF THE ARCHITECTURE CHARMING IS THE WAY THAT PEOPLE CAN THINK DIFFERENT. ARCHITECT CAN ARGUE ABOUT THE HISTORICAL DESIGN AND INVENT SOMETHING NEWS.ROBERT CHARLES VENTURI IS ONE OF THE ARCHITECT THAT INVENTED SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN THE TIME OF " LESS IS MORE". HE SAID HE IS NOT BELIEVE IT. AND HIS WORK CAN PROVE HIS WORD.

THE BEGINNING OF HIS EVOLUTION IS HIS ESSAY, STATED ABOUT COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION IN ARCHITECTURE. AND IT BECAME A VERY OPPOSITE IDEA WITH MODERNISM, IT'S POST-MODERNISM. VENTURI IS ONE OF THE EARLY POST-MODERN SO HE TRY TO DO THE OPPOSITE THING WITH THE IDEA OF LOUISE KHAN WHOSE WORK IS CAME FROM SYMMETRICAL AND HUMAN PROPORTION. WHAT VENTURI WAS TO MAKE A FACADE OF A HOUSE NOT SYMMETRICAL, FOR EXAMPLE, HIS VENTURI HOUSE, THE ROOF HS BEEN CUT TO BE APART FROM EACH OTHER, WINDOW FROM BOTH SIDE ARE NOT THE SAME TO EMPHASIS THE IDEA OF ASYMMETRY, THE WAY HE DECORATED AND ALSO THE COLOR WHICH WAS TRY TO BE NOT NATURAL. HE CHOSE THE BLUE COLOR. IT'S ALL JUST SO DIFFERENT FROM THE IDEA OF KAHN. THE VENTURI HOUSE OBVIOUSLY EXPOSE THE IDEA OF POST-MODERNISM CLEARLY AND TO BE CLEAR, HE MADE FUN WITH HIS DRAWING, " I AM A HOUSE"

ANOTHER MAJOR LEADER OF EARLY POST-MODERNISM SURELY MUST BE PETER EISENMANN. HE IS A VERY STRONG INFLUENCE OF THIS ERA. HE TRY TO CONVINCE EVERYONE INTO THIS IDEA. HIS FAMOUS ONE IS HOUSE VI 1972. I FOUND THAT THIS ONE IS VERY STRENGTH FROM ALL OF THE HISTORY I HAVE READ. IT'S NOT A HOUSE BUT SOME FUNCTION AS A HOUSE. IT'S NOT DERIVE FROM HUMAN SCALE AT ALL. FOR EXAMPLE, IT HAS AN UP SIDE DOWN STAIR CASE, SEPARATED HUSBAND AND WIFE'S BEDS IN THE SAME BEDROOM. THE IDEA ABOUT SYMMETRICAL CANT BE FOUND IN THIS ARCHITECTURE. ALL OF ELEVATION IS NOTHING THE SAME AND ALSO THE SECTIONS OF THIS HOUSE ARE ALL DIFFERENT. HIS INTENTION IS JUST TO DESCRIBE ONLY ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE IS STRONG. IF THE MODERNISM IS BASED ON BLACK AND WHITE, HE IS NOT A RED OR BLUE BUT HE WILL BLEND EVERYTHING OUT AND BECOME GREY. AND IT BECOME A DEFINITION OF POST-MODERNISM.