09/15 09 — Postwar and Contemporary Architectural Movements Free Online FlashCards

What characterizes postwar and contemporary architecture?

Pluralism: multiple architectural approaches can coexist, and buildings may combine ideas from different movements.

What are key characteristics of Brutalism?

Brutalism emphasizes exposed concrete, visible structure, repetitive structural bays, modular planning, and monumental forms.

How does Unité d’Habitation reconceive collective housing?

The Unité d’Habitation treats housing as a vertical neighborhood by combining apartments, internal streets, communal facilities, and roof terraces.

What did Japanese Metabolism imagine architecture could do?

Metabolism imagined architecture as a changeable system whose parts could be extended, replaced, or reconfigured as cities grew.

What did Postmodern architecture reintroduce?

Postmodernism reintroduced historical references, symbolism, ornament, irony, ambiguity, and familiar forms from popular culture.

How does the Vanna Venturi House express postmodern contradiction?

The Vanna Venturi House creates meaning through contradiction: its familiar facade suggests symmetry while its plan resists it.

What is the aim of critical regionalism?

Critical regionalism interprets climate, topography, materials, craft, and local patterns of life through contemporary design rather than copying tradition.

What does high-tech architecture make visible?

High-tech architecture makes structure, services, assembly, and technology visible parts of architectural expression.

How does the Centre Pompidou create interior flexibility?

The Centre Pompidou places structure, mechanical services, circulation, and color-coded systems outside, freeing interior floors for flexible public use.

What geometric assumptions does deconstructivism challenge?

Deconstructivism challenges stable, unified geometry through fragmented volumes, disrupted axes, non-orthogonal forms, and apparent visual conflict.

What does sustainable architecture evaluate beyond energy efficiency?

Sustainable architecture evaluates energy, embodied carbon, materials, reuse, durability, maintenance, health, accessibility, resilience, and equity.

Why is adaptive reuse environmentally significant?

Adaptive reuse preserves existing structure, embodied carbon, and cultural memory while reducing demolition waste.