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Evolving Modernism and the response
Modern typologies
Screen
Mirror
Brutalist and Arrested Rust Sheathing
Geometric
Sculptural
Hi-Tech
First Unitarian Church, Rochester, NY, 1959-64 (Louis I. Kahn)
Screen: Open screening to facades and walls to add richness and disguise structure
United States Embassy, New Delhi, India, 1957-59 (Edward Durrell Stone)
Lever House, New York, NY, 1951-52.(Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
Mirror: Making whole walls of reflective materials.
The mirror was perceived to be ornamental.
They are presaging post-modernism because they reflect other buildings.
Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, California, 1980 Philip Johnson
Hancock Place, Boston, MA, 1977. I. M. Pei
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. Architect: Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith (1963-1966).
Brutalist and Arrested Rust Sheathing: An attempt to recall the frankness of established modernism. Rust was popular in the 1960s and 1970s as an imitation of ruin
Yale Art and Architecture Building, P. Rudolph 1964
Broadcasting PlaceLeeds, England, 1964
Weisman Art Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Frank Gehry , 1993
East Wing, National Gallery, Washington, DC, 1974-78. I. M. Pei (triangular planning grid)
Chapel at U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, 1956-62 (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)