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After a brief discussion of influences, this paper looks at modern architecture in Southern California (post-1945), and includes works by Frank Gehry, Pierre Koenig's Stahl House, Louis I. Kahn's Salk Institute, and Arata Isozaki's MOCA. Bibliography lists 5 sources. JVsoCali.rtf
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1945. This meant the shift to flat and sheer and ribbony strands of glass, steel and concrete first seen in France, Germany and Holland, and later called the International Style,
which at the time, offered a sharp contrast to traditional urban settings. This glitzy style was imported to Southern California by such architects as Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn and
Pierre Koenig. In more recent years, dynamic geometrics have been added, as in the Los Angeles Civic Art Museum. Yet, Southern California hosts the opposing style of earth and rock
and high color, as in Frank Gehrys work. Both architectural styles match the daring and glitz of the lifestyles of its people.
As Michael J. Lewis writes concerning the modernist break from tradition, "What was required was no mere elaboration or incremental development of past models, but a complete and absolute
break. In architecture, this involved the total rejection of historical form. . . ." (Lewis 40). In Southern California, many buildings that offer a unique style that not only rejects
historical form in many ways, but has been copied around the world. The student may want to state that the progenitors of modern
architecture include a number of architects that could be said to included modernists, post-modernists and deconstructionists such as Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi and Frank Gehry. Mies van der
Rohe was famous for refined and detailed joints and casings of glass and chrome, so precise in detail as to appear cold and lifeless. In fact, it was his most
common critique, to the point that his work could not find a place in exhibits. Desiring to be different, but using the
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