The Pritzker Prize, an international award ,Illinois, United States, North America,

initiated in 1979, is the architectural designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg.

equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

The first award was given to Philip Johnson,

and subsequent.

Francis Kéré (b. Diébédo Francis Kéré, 1965)

was born in Burkina Faso - one of the world’s
least educated and most impoverished
nations, a land void of clean drinking water, William Periera
electricity and infrastructure, let alone - Geisel Library is the main library
architecture. building of the University of California
San Diego Library.

Brutalism
- use of basic building processes,
especially of cast in place concrete,
with no apparent concern for visual
amenity.
- a style based on the shaped and
molded forms of concrete, a thick,
Moshe Safdie
masonry variation of modernist
architecture. - HABITAT 67, or simply Habitat, is a
- model community and housing
complex in Montreal.
INTERIOR DESIGN

Post Modernism
Movement in architecture and decorative
arts in reaction to the principles and practices
of modernism, encouraging the use of the
elements on the historical vernacular styles
and often – full illusion, decoration, and
complexity.

Inspiration from the past

Bernard Goldberg

Marina City is a mixed-use residential

commercial building complex in Chicago
INTERIOR DESIGN

Philip Johnson

- The man brought Van de Rohe to the

Robert Venturi States and introduced New York to
- Published the manifesto, complexity the Modern Style; dubbed
and contradiction in architecture international style.
(1966) that announce, “Less is a
bore.”
AT & T Building-
Vanna Venturi House- The house that Venturi
designed in 1964 for his mother, Vanna • Manhattan
Venturi, at Chestnut Hill, a suburb of • Described as resembling a giant
Philadelphia, is the first important Chippendale cabinet with a
demonstration of the ideas that characterize broken pediment top.
post-modernism. • The ground- floor entrance lobby of
this building, a modern skyscraper,
introduces such surprises as
arched and vaulted spaces.

Micheal Greaves

- Developed a wide raging eclecticism IM Pei

in which he abstracted historical
• I.M. Pei, in full Ieoh Ming Pei.
forms and emphasized the use of
• Chinese-born American
color.
architect noted for his large,
Portland Municipal Services Building - elegantly designed urban
highly abstracted classical elements – buildings and complexes.
including columns, pediments, and a frieze-
like decorative band – all set amid a grid of
small square windows.
Louvre Building - The ground-level entrance
to this complex was situated in the centre of
the Cour Napoléon and was crowned by a
controversial steel-and-glass pyramid
designed by the American architect I.M. Pei.

FURNITURE BIEDERMEIER CHAIR

GOTHIC REVIVAL CHAIR

Robert Venturi

SHERATON CHAIR

QUEEN ANNE CHAIR

CHIPPENDALE CHAIR

Ettore Sottsass

HEPPLEWHITE CHAIR
 • A style that goals to liberate the
maximum volume of space inside by
positioning all its working-the stairs,
lifts, escalators. outside the interior
envelope of the building.
• “Structural expressionism” - bring
the Utilities outside.
• The popular term given to design
Carlton Bookcase wood, polychrome, printed based on advanced technology is
laminate “high-tech,” taken from a 1978 book
of the same name, which documented
the trend toward using industrial
materials in design.

INTERIOR DESIGN

Alessandro Mendini

Norman Foster

The “high tech” vocabulary of Foster

Associates shows an uncompromising
exploration of technological innovations and
forms.

Proust Armchair carved and handpainted HSBC Hongkong – Another notable feature is
wood and fabric that natural sunlight is the major source of
lighting inside the building.

• Dismantle

• Sustainability

• a spectacularly tall skyscraper tower office

building in Hong Kong for the Shanghai
National Bank

High Tech
Richard Rogers

- His interest in uninterrupted interior

spaces has made rogers an heir to the
functionalist tradition.
- His concern with total flexibility and
obvious technical imagery has been
termed Late Modern.

Pompidou Center- a multipurpose cultural

center. The first hi-tech monument, it is a
modern art gallery.

- The external positioning of the

building’s color-coded service
elements maximizes the
uninterrupted floor space within

Renzo Piano

- Investigated the world of machine and

the properties of timber, brick, and
plywood, also bamboo.

Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center - Curved

structures made of glass, stainless steel and
laminated timbe.
Contemporary the premises of local or regional
architecture.
• Evolved from the work of Avant Garde • It was first used by the architectural
artist and designers in Germany and theorists Alexander Tzoins and Laine
other European countries during the Lefaivrelt
first decades of the Twentieth century.
• Key features: Distorted shapes,
fragmented lines, organic and
biomorphic forms, massive,
sculpted shapes, extensive use of
concrete and brick, lack of
symmetry.
Jorn Utzon
Expressionism
Sydney Opera House - Architects from some
30 countries submitted 233 entries. In
January 1957 the judging committee
announced the winning entry, that of Danish
architect Jørn Utzon, who won with a
dramatic design showing a complex of two
main halls side by side facing out to the
harbour on a large podium.

- Each hall was topped with a row of

sail-shaped interlocking panels that
would serve as both roof and wall,
to be made of precast concrete.

Eric Mendelson

Deconstructivism
Einstein Tower in Potsdam- is an - The term “deconstructivism” came
astrophysical observatory in the Albert into general use after a Museum of
Einstein Science Park in Potsdam. Modern Art New York exhibition in
1988 organized by Philip Johnson and
- It was built on the summit of the Mark Wigley.
Potsdam Telegraph Enberg to house a - Deconstruction, is an approach to
solar telescope designed by the building design that attempts to
astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich. view architecture in bits and pieces.

Critical Regionalism
• An Avante gardist, modernist
approach, but one that starts from
 Zaha Hadid

Frank Gehry - Iraqi-born British architect known for

her radical deconstructivist designs.
- Canadian American architect and
- In 2004 she became the first woman
designer whose original, sculptural,
to be awarded the Pritzker
often audacious work won him
Architecture Prize.
worldwide renown.
- He studied architecture at the
University of Southern California
Vitra Fire station- Composed of a series of
(1949–51; 1954) and city planning at
sharply angled planes, the structure
Harvard University (1956–57)
resembles a bird in fligh.
Guggenheim Museum - is a museum of
modern and contemporary art designed by
Canadian American architect Frank Gehry,
Formalism
and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
- Lines and rigid geometric shapes
- With curved volumes and large glass
predominate in Formalist
curtain walls that connect the inside
architecture.
and the outside, the Atrium is an
ample space flooded with light and
covered by a great skylight.

Frank Gehry’s furniture

IM Pe

Bank of China Tower - Rising 1,205 feet (367

metres), the skyscraper was for a few years
the tallest building in the world outside the
Wiggle side chair.
United States.
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AirForce Chapel- The United States Air Force

Academy Cadet Chapel, completed in 1962,
is the distinguishing feature of the Cadet Area
at the United States Air Force Academy north
of Colorado Springs.

- The most striking aspect of the Chapel

is its row of seventeen spires.
- The structure is a tubular steel frame
of 100 identical tetrahedrons, each
75 feet (23 m) long, weighing five
tons, and enclosed with aluminum
panels.
- triangular aluminum panels, while
the tetrahedrons between the spires
are filled with a mosaic of colored
glass in aluminum frame.