Title & Author:

The Presence of The Past / [presented by] Robert Stern.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (35 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Robert Stern In 1976 -- Foro Romano, Rome -- Hameau Du Trianon, Versailles 1783 -- Top: Crystal Palace By Paxton. Bottom: Centre Pompidou By Piano & Rogers -- Newport Casino, Rhode Island -- Penn Station, New York, By McKim -- Mead & White. 1906 -- 1910 -- Penn Station: Concourse & Hall -- Westchester Residence, Armonk, New York, By Stern (RAM) -- Westchester Residence: Interior -- Lang Residence, Washington, Connecticut, By RAMS. Top: Views To North East. Bottom: Views To South East -- Longfellow House, Cambridge, Massachusetts -- Governor Gore House, Waltham, Massachusetts By Charles Bulfinch, 1909 -- 1910 -- House On Seal Harbour, Maine, By RAMS -- Lawson Residence, By RAMS -- Hypothetical Proposal For Subway Suburb, By RAMS -- Charlotte, North Carolina -- Town House By RAMS -- Solar Swimming Pool Project By RAMS -- Left: Mies van der Rohe's Chicago Tribune Tower Competition Entry. Right: Philip Johnson & His AT&T Building -- Chicago Tribune Tower. Left: Adolf Loos' Entry To Original Competition. Right: Robert Stern's Entry To Second Competition, 1980 -- Linz Forum 1980: RAMS' Design -- Model Of Building For Best, By RAMS -- Sir John Soane's Museum, London.

Summary:

At the time of this talk Robert Stern practised architecture in New York, and taught at Columbia University. His ideas and work have been widely publicised in recent years, his Post-Modern style always the subject of heated debate in architectural circles. He is the author of several books: "New Directions In American Architecture" and "The Architect's Eye: American Architectural Drawings 1977/78", and has arranged a number of exhibitions. In this talk Stern, provocateur par excellence, expounds and illustrates his approach. Post-Modern buildings, he says, are designed to mean something. Post-Modernism accepts diversity, prefers hybrids to pure forms, borrows from the past, layers space. He finds all these characteristics in his favourite building, Sir John Soane's Museum in London. "I admire Soane extravagantly. He brought together in one building so many complex strands of what it means to be an artist or architect and a citizen of the world - the need to make a statement within a context. Rather than "less is more", Soane seems to be saying "more is not enough"... Architecture is about everything... That is what it must be, must move toward". At the International Design Conference at Aspen in 1980, Stern's wide-ranging presentation acted as the necessary irritant, it left some people fuming, some indifferent, but no one uninvolved.

Subject:

Architecture, Postmodern.
Architecture postmoderne.
Postmodern.

Added entries:

Stern, Robert A. M., narrator.