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Modern urban landscapes (like Las Vagas) need words to convey their meanings. Buildings can represent their meanings in two basic ways: Duck vs. Decorated Shed Postmodernism II

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Modern urban landscapes (like Las Vagas) need words to convey their meanings. Buildings can represent their meanings in two basic ways:

Duck vs. Decorated Shed

Postmodernism II

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Portland Building 1980

Portland Municipal Building

Portland, OR

1980

Michael Graves

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Chicago Public Library

1987 Thomas Beeby

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HWLC

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Aerial

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HWLC

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Boston Public Library

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Marshal Field Wholesale, 1885

Marshal Field Wholesale Bld.

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Bibliotheque St Genevive (1843)

Bibliotheque Ste. Genevive

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Cornerstone detail

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HWLC, acroteria

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plan

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Aerial

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Back

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FCC

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FCC, construction photo

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AT&T Building, NYC, 1979 Philip Johnson

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Postmodern Bob Evans

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“Architecture is the decoration of shelter.”

–Venturi

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Modern urban landscapes (like Las Vagas) need words to convey their meanings. Buildings can represent their meanings in two basic ways:

Duck vs. Decorated Shed

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The Duck is a building that is its sign. Meaning and symbol are one. The sign and the building are not separate but the building itself represents its

meaning. (The term comes from a poultry shop in the shape of a duck)

Duck

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Doge’s Palace (Venice c. 1300-1400),

Decorated Shed

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Parthenon

Duck

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Institute for Scientific Information (35th at Market) Venturi

Decorated Shed

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The Decorated Shed is a building where the sign is separate and the meaning is applied via a sign. Meaning is contained in the sign and the architecture itself becomes unimportant. The same building could be a

church or a casino, it depends only on the sign.

Superior Court Building, Manchester, CT, Allan Greenbergconverted from a strip mall supermarket, mid 1970s

Decorated Shed

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Liberty Place and Chrystler Bld.