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| Question | Answer |
| Name Architect Location Date | Nakagin Capsule Tower, Noriaki Kurokawa, Japan, 1971 |
| Nakagin Capsule Tower Movement: Postmodernism | |
| Centre Pompidou Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano Paris 1976 | |
| Centre Pompidou Movement: PoMo | |
| Name, Architect, Location, Date | The Celebration Company Celebration Florida 1990 |
| Celebration Florida PoMo Different style of porches that are anti-modern | |
| Celebration Florida “illusion of community” Irony To make up what the architecture was supposed to foster; Organized block parties, hired guitarist | |
| Name Architect Location Date | The Guggenheim Museum Frank Gehry Bilbao, Spain 1997 |
| The BILBAO Effect | The Guggenheim Museum PoMo THE BILBAO effect: Taking architectural risk which can be pay itself to better their economy |
| Name Architect Location Date | Hearst Tower Norman Foster New York 2006 |
| Pentahedral modular tower; The first “green” skyscraper in NYC; PoMo Theme: Return | historic façade Environmental Consciousness | |
| Levittown Levit New York, 1945-1950 Post-war Urbanism Urban sprawl Massed produced, somewhat costumed Subsidizes loans No town centers, however located next to interstate | |
| Levittown New York 1945-50 "CapeCod" Model Home are based off salt box houses. Often by the coast. Built to be temporary. | |
| Levittown New York 1945-50 "Ranch" Model Home | |
| Name, Architect, Location, Date | Glass House Philip Johnson New Canaan, CT 1949 |
| (exception to the rules) Utilities in the center – like Wright. Theoretical open space of housing application. Non practical. Entertainment purposes. International Style | Mies van der Rohe | |
| Name Architect Location Date | Seagram Building Mies van der Rohe New York 1954 |
| Seagram company famous for beverage productions. Top notched design architecture at the time. Leased some floors to other companies for office space. Fine rationalized mullions. Mies also designed the window shade (only up, down, or half way). He encased the beams in precious bronze. Not a good insulator – high electric bill for that inefficiency |
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