Cincuenta latas : repetición pop en la obra de Andy Warhol y Robert Venturi

Abstract

This article examines the characteristics shared by Andy Warhol and Robert Venturi’s artistic and architectural praxis during the 1962-1973 period. In addition to the biographical aspects linking the two figures, the article aims to establish the potential influence of the artist from Pittsburgh on the architect’s initial works. Here, rather than concentrating on the most evident visual and thematic aspects -from clichés as a motif to stylisation of architectural elements, briefly mentioned in the article-, the study focuses almost exclusively on a conceptual analysis of floor plans and repetition of motifs. While reiteration for the artist results in a contradictory means of expressing what is manual in his pictorial exercises, for the architect from Philadelphia it constitutes a means of bringing up to date a disciplinary recourse hemmed in by modernity, that is, ornamentation.