At that time, an important alternative voice was RobertVenturi, whose Complexity and Contradiction of Architecture was regarded as another classic to discuss architectural theory after le corbusier. While declaring that their works are pure art, the "New York Five" also loudly responded to Venturi in the 1960- 1970' s and declared war on mercantilism.

With a sense of professionalism, they began to record the contents of the meeting and copied it into a booklet with two works by everyone. They couldn't think of the title at the moment (these pamphlets were later called Five Architects), so they wrote their names in alphabetical order on the white square cover. However, Graves later said, "We didn't expect anyone to read it."

When the pamphlet was published, the youngest Gowasu Mi was 35 years old and the oldest hejduk was 44 years old. Apart from academia and a few clients, they are unknown to everyone and build houses for clients in Princeton and East Long Island in obscurity. However, after their book was published in 1973, it immediately caused a sensation. Subsequently, they became the famous "five-person group" and became the standard-bearers for developing modernist architectural forms into systematic theory and practice.

"This is a famous event." RobertStern, an architect and dean of the School of Architecture of Yale University, said that the five architects had "a common belief that the modernist movements in the 1920s and 1930s were worth recalling" rather than a common aesthetic orientation.

The influence of five people on this book was unexpected. Meyer was surprised by the influence of this book "among students, both in America and Europe". Graves said: "I think people may yearn for something other than commercial modernism." Besides urbanization, we care more about architecture. "

ArthurDrxler, director of MoMA Architecture and Design Department in new york, wrote in the preface of the book: "Architecture is the most difficult tool to accomplish change ... In the United States, it is like a stone wall built for convenience, but they want to break into a new world with their heads." "Five Architects" has aroused enthusiastic response from people in the industry who have been dissatisfied with the status quo for a long time, and people have participated in the discussion fiercely. Architectural Forum magazine published a series of papers by five other architects, led by Robert Stern, in response to the "five schools" later called "grey school". The "grey school" thinks that it is not feasible for the "white school" to pursue pure modernist aesthetics. Their design is too idealistic, ignoring the characteristics of the surrounding environment and customers, which is incompatible with daily life. Later, the views accumulated by the "grey school" in the debate gradually formed the embryonic form of postmodernism.

/kloc-the avant-garde movement of architecture awakened in the late 1960s was not a utopian dream of modernism, but a transformation of architectural theory into a realistic form. Everyone began to seriously discuss what role architecture should play in culture. This trend of theoretical debate initiated by five architects in new york initiated a new period of vigorous development of American architectural theory.

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