Alternative Architecture in the 1970's

Moderna, San Cataldo Cemetary
Considered almost surrealistic

Seen as a city of the dead

Biennale Exhibition
Rossi's big show

Used big, common forms

Was almost "Vetruvian" even in it's use of forms from other stylistic periods

Teatro del Mondo
Like a:


 * Ship (with movement of the water)
 * Lighthouse
 * Oriented the windows to four levels

German Historical Museum
1988 Project (never built)

Tried to bring in an entire history of Germany's architecture

Didn't fear to acknnowledge the holocaust and the architecture of industry

Alternative Architecture
Category developed by Jurgen Habermas as another channel of thought

"Byker Wall"
Ralph Erskine

Newcastle

1972-1974

Interviewed the people that were going to live there -> got an idea of purpose

Idiosyncratic floor plans

Louvain Medical Faculty Buildings
Lucien Kroll and Atelier

1969-1974

Developed for the students of Louvain University

Incorporates many different styles Complex in its meetings Many clusters designed by different people

1972 -> Jencks writes a book that feature this work in Adhocism

Adhocism
Jencks idea of innovation & invention that takes place in amateur architecture

Hippies in California using Geodesic Domes

Shanty towns -> aesthetics of necessity

"Shelter"
1973 book on the abstracted history of humans building shelters

Looked at a international stylings of shelters

Basically was a multiculturalism for architecture

Book also had diagrams for actually building your own building in these styles.

A Pattern Language"
Christopher Alexander

Respect for subcultures

Desire to create livable spaces/environments

Instructions all the way down to very small/detail

The "Six Foot Porch"

Easy/Cheap roof construction techniques.

Frank Gehry
Corrugated Cardboard chairs -> cheap, creative ways of carrying the loads.

Architect's House
Malibu, CA

1978

Needed to add space to his existing family house

"an Old/New person"

Around an old-time house

Elements:


 * Chain link fences
 * Corrugated metal
 * Plywood

Old house wrapped in new materials

The combination would make both the old and the new richer from one another

"a house inside of a house"

Materials of the new construction are foregrounded

Gehry was all interested in the work not appearing finished

Gordon Matta-Clark

"Splitting"

"Paris Cut Away"

"Blow Out"