1. Contemporary Humanities
1960s-1980s

2. Table of Contents
Art
Architecture
Music

3. Workers of paint, camera, and stone
Contemporary Artists
Workers of paint, camera, and stone
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4. Artists Type your critiques on the answer sheet provided.
The artists to be critiqued for this section include:
Jacob Lawrence
Ansel Adams
Pepón Osorio
Mel Chin
Georgia O’keefe

5. PostModernist Architects
Designers of spaces that speak to the Contemporary philosophy

6. As you view the architectural styles consider the following
Name the characteristic of the Contemporary American Philosophy that each architect’s style reflects. Explain how the building or its materials reflects that characteristic.
The style might . . .
demonstrate the American ability to invigorates the old with the new
celebrate cultural diversity
depict a futuristic world (science fiction)
Record your reflections on the Answer sheet

7. Architects
Note that additional images of these architects’ works may be found at the links attached to their names on their pages.
The architects presented in this overview include:
Robert AM Stern
I. M. Pei.
Helmut Jahn
Frank Gehry
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Robert Venturi

8. Robert AM Stern
A representative example of this design approach is Stern’s Observatory Hill Dining Hall ( ) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The dining hall combines red brick, white wood trim, and Tuscan Doric columns, referring to the adjoining buildings by Thomas Jefferson, but employs modern building forms and walls with large windows.

9. I. M. Pei.
His design for the East Wing of the National Gallery ( ) in Washington, D.C., uses simple oblique masses that reflect the diagonals of Washington’s street plan.
Pei clad the walls of the East Wing in the same marble used decades earlier for the National Gallery’s classical-revival main building, and he placed a large, glass-covered atrium at the East Wing’s center.

10. Helmut Jahn
Jahn used large-scale forms of late modernism and emphasized and exploited the artistic effects of metal structural framing and colored glass sheathing.
These interests are clearly apparent in his design for the United Airlines Terminal ( ) at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport

11. Frank Gehry Gehry has enjoyed the playfulness deconstructivism allows.
As the geometries of his buildings became more complex and he introduced compound curves, Gehry and his staff relied increasingly on computer-aided design, adapting software developed in France for aircraft design.

12. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Individual houses and other buildings of Seaside reflected simple local building types adapted to the warm climate and thus not sealed and completely reliant on air conditioning.
The architects wanted Seaside residents to be connected with one another and with the natural environment, rather than at the mercy of their machines.
Special emphasis was placed on enabling residents to walk about the town so that they did not have to rely on automobiles.

13. Robert Venturi
Venturi’s humorous manipulations of classical forms are evident in the house he designed for his mother, the Vanna Venturi house (completed 1964) in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, especially in its references to a classical broken pediment and its incorporation of moldings across the facade.

14. Harbingers with a Contemporary appeal
Contemporary Music
Harbingers with a Contemporary appeal
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15. As you view the websites of the following musical styles/institutions consider the following
Name the characteristic of the Contemporary American Philosophy that each musical genre reflects. Explain how the building or its materials reflects that characteristic.
The style might . . .
demonstrate the American ability to invigorates the old with the new
celebrate cultural diversity
depict a futuristic world (science fiction)
Record your reflections on the Answer sheet

16. Music Motown Protest Music British Invasion Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
Grand ol’ Opry
Please note that pictures and names are linked to different websites. Visit both if you have time.

17. Motown

18. Protest Music
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19. British Invasion

20. Rock and Roll

21. Country Western Music