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Assignment: Week # 10 Discussion # 1
Discussion Title: "Twentieth Century African-American Artists; Postmodern Architecture"
Choose one (1) example of architecture that you believe best exemplifies the characteristic post-modern
style.
- Post-modern architecture style rejects the pure almost hygienic of the Bauhaus and international
styles. I choose the Gehry House. It was definitely rejecting the modern look for buildings. It was
“rather a collision of parts, built to stay but with a deliberately unfinished, ordinary builder like
sensibility of parts” (Gehry House - Frank Gehry - Great Buildings Architecture).
Provide a rationale for your selection, and describe two (2) of the features of post-modern style that you
find intriguing.
- It wasn’t something that looked finished at all; but also held you almost in suspense to see what
was around the next corner. The house had the characteristics of the deconstructionist spirit of
the eighties and also had a anti-high-tech in preference for a visual presence. But to me that’s