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Pop architecture

 

1. Architecture popular with the public.

2. Buildings the forms of which suggest their function, such as a shoe-shaped shoe-shop; also called ‘bizarre’, ‘illegitimate’, ‘programmatic’, or ‘roadside’ architecture. Venturi has included ‘autoscape’ architecture of the large illuminated advertisements common in the USA in the pop-architecture category.

3. Work influenced by popular architecture, or responding to High Tech and Archigram-promoted images.

Bibliography

  • Anderton (1998)
  • J.J.C.Andrews (1985)
  • Architectural Review, cxxxii/785 (July 1962), 43–6
  • Jencks (1979)
  • RIBA Journal (Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects), lxxii/3 (Mar. 1965), 142–3
  • R.Venturi (1966, 1996)
  • R.Venturi et al. (1977)
  • Vostell & Higgins (1969)

The full bibliography for this book is available to download as a pdf file.
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