This is a summary of the final presentation I had to do with
my group. We had the title Post- Modernism. We started by introducing the
presentation by talking about what was happening before Post- Modernism began. There
was Pop Design and Radical Design which were a lot about striking colours,
scale distortion, irony and a reaction against perfection.
We introduced the subject itself by saying some characteristics
of Post- Modernism. Post- Modernist found the designs of the Modernists to be
fundamentally meaningless and boring. Designers got inspiration mostly from forms
and Motifs drawn from past styles.
Micheal Graves is an American architect who design abstract
style private houses. He built the Portland building in 1982 which is the first
major building of Post- Modernism. It is a 15-storey office block in Portland,
Oregon. The building in all costs around ninety five million dollars. It is a
building which reminds me a lot of cubism because of its geometrical shapes. It
is also very symmetrical.
The Memphis Group was founded in 1981 in Milan, Italy by a
group of designers and architects who believed that their designs should
consist of different textures, colours, patterns and shapes. Memphis was a
reaction against the slick, smart, warm, black humorless design of the 1970's. Ettore
Scottsass was an Austrian designer, but lived in Italy, from the late twentieth
century. He was one of the founder of the Memphis Group, and also he designed
iconic electronic products, as well as furniture and ornaments. He designed the
Acme House in Maui. It is a two story building with high roofs built around a
big garden filled with beautiful green grass. The outside of the building has
five colours- green, red, white and purple. These colours fit in really well
together and makes the place very colourful. Since the outside already has a
lot going on with the colours, the shape is quite simple and very geometric. It
is made out of cubes only, except the roof of one part of the house which is
triangle. This is a very beautiful home near the beach.
These were a few of the many examples we talk about in our
presentation.
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