WebDimensions 7 3/4 x 20 1/2 x 6 3/4" (19.7 x 52.1 x 17.1 cm) Credit Gift of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, Inc. [23][22][24] The museum's expansion/renovation and the Museum of Modern Art Residential Tower were completed 1984; the World Financial Center in New York, which includes the grand public space of the Winter Garden, was completed in 1988. It has this presence.Designers and students have long appreciated the building, and with age the house s noteriety only seems to grow. To me its like a work of art, Hughes said. Davies, Colin. The sculptural forms, not necessarily organic, were created with much ardor. Rather than copy a specific style, "[3], Residence in Pennsylvania, United States. It achieves the difficult task of unifying such diverse parts. Robert Venturi Vanna Venturi House, 1961-1964. Web1 of 14. The real revolution was inside, where Scharoun placed the orchestra in the center, with the audience seated on terraces around it. ArchDaily 2008-2023. "Camp" humor was popular during the postmodern period; it was an ironic humor based on the premise that something could appear so bad (such as a building that appeared about to collapse) that it was good. Basel: Birkhuser Verlag, 2013. [6], The Guild House in Philadelphia by Robert Venturi (19601963), Vanna Venturi House by Robert Venturi (1964), Fire Station Number 4 in Columbus, Indiana (1968), Carson Hall, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Trabant Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE (1996), Frist Campus Center at Princeton University (2000), Robert Venturi (19252018) was both a prominent theorist of postmodernism and an architect whose buildings illustrated his ideas. The ornament in Michael Graves' Portland Municipal Services Building ("Portland Building") (1980) is even more prominent. Postmodernism with its diversity possesses sensitivity to the building's context and history, and the client's requirements. Special thanks to our sustaining subscribers including The aims of postmodernism or late-modernism begin with its reaction to modernism; it tries to address the limitations of its predecessor. I value contractors that think like that, Hughes said. Though some of his peers designed buildings that respectfully imitate the past, he was no mere revivalist. Oblique buildings which tilt, lean, and seem about to fall over are common.[45]. [47], Double coding meant the buildings convey many meanings simultaneously. WebRobert Venturi had some big ideas about architecture, and he found ways to express several of them in this rather small home. Small, yet large scale, its spaces are very complex, both in form and in their relations. The house will also be DESCRIPTION. Other programs followed suit, including several PhD programs in schools of architecture that arose to differentiate themselves from art history PhD programs, where architectural historians had previously trained. One of his first buildings was the Guild House in Philadelphia, built between 1960 and 1963, and a house for his mother in Chestnut Hill, in Philadelphia. The characteristics of postmodernism allow its aim to be expressed in diverse ways. In his early career, he, along with the Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier, was considered one of the New York Five, a group of advocates of pure modern architecture, but in 1982 he turned toward postmodernism with the Portland Building, one of the first major structures in the style. A Concise History of American Architecture. Postmodern architecture sometimes used the same sense of theatricality, sense of the absurd and exaggeration of forms.[46]. Sitting in the living room of the Venturi House on chairs upholstered in purple Venturi fabric with Venturi books and illustrations mixed in with family mementos on the book shelves we settled in to talk about the Hughes familys approach to their faithful stewardship of the property, their ongoing relationship with the designer, and her deep affection for the house. The Vanna Venturi House is featured in a new PBS documentary called the 10 Buildings That Changed America that will debut next month. [44], Asymmetric forms are one of the trademarks of postmodernism. The .ctb file for printing thicknesses can be downloaded from here. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. Beginning in the 1990s, he began using wood as a building material, and introduced elements of traditional Japanese architecture, particularly in his design of the Museum of Wood Culture (1995). The second floor contains another bedroom, storage space, and a terrace. However, his major buildings in the 1970, such as IDS Center in Minneapolis (1973) and Pennzoil Place in Houston (19701976), were massive, sober, and entirely modernist. It was completed in 1964. The increasing rise of interest in history had a profound impact on architectural education. A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Rossi insisted that cities be rebuilt in ways that preserved their historical fabric and local traditions. They urged architects to take into consideration and to celebrate the existing architecture in a place, rather than to try to impose a visionary utopia from their own fantasies. Still, the house is largely in its original condition. Please give today. In contrast, the outside form is simple and consistent, the front creates an almost symbolic image of a house. In his early buildings, different parts of the buildings were often different bright colors. Now its up to Agatha Hughes to determine the organization she would prefer to donate the easement to, and find the money with which to endow that donation. WebVanna Venturi House, Robert Venturi, Chestnut Hill PA, 1964. In testing his beliefts on complexity and contradition (for which he also wrote the book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture), Venturi went through six fully worked-out versions of the house which slowlybecameknown as the firstexample ofPostmodern architecture. "Cesar Pelli: Connections". In the US, MIT and Cornell were the first, created in the mid-1970s, followed by Columbia, Berkeley, and Princeton. And through the house, Hughes explained, the family became friends with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. A new trend became evident in the last quarter of the 20th century as some architects started to turn away from modern functionalism which they viewed as boring, and which some of the public considered unwelcoming and even unpleasant. Photo Credit: Venturi and Associates, Widely considered to be the first postmodernist house, the Vanna Venturi house displays nonfunctional, even historical, elements such as this arch motif clearly breaking another modernist principle. Together we can reach 100% of WHYYs fiscal year goal. It includes courtyards, colonnades, promenades, and buildings, with both open and semi-enclosed spaces, stairways and balconies.[8]. Precedents in Architecture. April 30, 2004. Cesar Pelli: Selected and Current Works. Gehry was often described as a proponent of deconstructivism, but he refused to accept that or any other label for his work. Shedding water away from the center of the building, such a roof form always served a functional purpose in climates with rain and snow, and was a logical way to achieve larger spans with shorter structural members, but it was nevertheless relatively rare in Modernist buildings. The functional and formalized shapes and spaces of the modernist style are replaced by diverse aesthetics: styles collide, form is adopted for its own sake, and new ways of viewing familiar styles and space abound. [27], Buildings designed by Pelli during this period are marked by further experimentation with a variety of materials (most prominently stainless steel) and his evolution of the skyscraper. 10 1/8 x 15 1/4 x 10 The Vanna Venturi House demonstrates some of the "complexities and contradictions" in modern architecture that Robert Venturi discussed in his seminal book on that topic. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. The New Castle County House dates to an important period in Venturis career and Post Modernism. Last week I sat down with Agatha Hughes, whose parents bought Vanna Venturi House in 1973, to talk about what it means to care for and live in this postmodern landmark. Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. History courses became more typical and regularized. He broke their traditional design giving them an unfinished and unstable look. It is an example of the revitalization of a square that was once empty and dominated by concrete. The Hughes family grew accustomed to sounding architect alert from the kitchen after spotting well-dressed Europeans walking down the driveway, and finding expensive sunglasses under the bushes where people have hid to sneak a photo and a peek at the house. Construction began in 1957, but it was not completed until 1973 due to difficult engineering problems and growing costs. Item Length. Dennis Sharp. They exist for aesthetic or their own purpose. Photo Credit: VSBA, Previous Building: Dulles International Airport. May 17, 2014. Venturi referred to the exterior as a layering system. The preview image of the project of this architecture derives directly from our dwg design and represents exactly the content of the dwg file. Describing the form, they wrote: "a diagonal line on a white page can be a hill, or a mountain, or slope, an ascent, or a descent." New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1987.. ISBN 0-8478-0743-6. [25] The Petronas Towers were completed in 1997, sheathed in stainless steel and reflecting Islamic design motifs. There have always been people who, like Hughes mother, make pilgrimages to see the Vanna Venturi House out of curiosity and appreciation. An example is the Abteiberg Museum by Hans Hollein in Mnchengladbach (19721974). I welcome the problems and exploit the uncertainties. A few years back Hughes replaced the faades large single-pane window with a double-glazing for efficiency purposes. Modernist architects may regard postmodern buildings as vulgar, associated with a populist ethic, and sharing the design elements of shopping malls, cluttered with "gew-gaws". BuilderSpace.com, WebVanna Venturi House Commentary "Venturi's first important project to be built was his mother's house, the Vanna Venturi House of 1961-1964. It was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mother, Vanna Venturi, and constructed between 1962 and 1964. The aims of postmodernism, which include solving the problems of Modernism, communicating meanings with ambiguity, and sensitivity for the building's context, are surprisingly unified for a period of buildings designed by architects who largely never collaborated with each other. [34], One of the early postmodernist architects in Europe was James Stirling (19261992). Its how we live. The building, next to the Thames, is the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service. He was noted for combining rigorous and pure forms with evocative and symbolic elements taken from classical architecture.[37]. Linda Hales (November 27, 2004). WHYY thanks our sponsors become a WHYY sponsor. For example, the east glass wall is recessed in order to form a covered yard screened by the back wall. You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Every time I come down that driveway it isanimate, Hughes said of the monumental, yet inviting, facade. 9.8in. "The Spirit Behind the Aga Khan Awards". The Architecture of Robert Venturi. [citation needed], Postmodern buildings sometimes utilize trompe-l'il, creating the illusion of space or depths where none actually exist, as has been done by painters since the Romans. In postmodern structures this was often achieved by placing contradictory quotes of previous building styles alongside each other, and even incorporating furniture stylistic references at a huge scale. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. A. Sanmartn, ed. I couldnt replicate it., _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. I prefer "both-and" to "either-or", black and white, and sometimes gray, to black or white. Updated 1996 edition available at Amazon.com, Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. My goal is to keep this house absolutely as authentic as possible.. These aims do, however, leave room for diverse implementations as can be illustrated by the variety of buildings created during the movement. The evening will feature an excerpt from the new PBS documentary,10 Buildings That Changed America, remarks by Venturis design partner and wife Denise Scott Brown, and a panel discussion about the pioneering design with PennPraxis Harris Steinberg, architectural historian David Brownlee and the films director Dan Protess. Postmodernist compositions are rarely symmetric, balanced and orderly. Form was no longer to be defined solely by its functional requirements or minimal appearance. All our content is written and edited by our community. I do have to sell this house, Hughes admits forlornly. The faade is, according to Venturi, a symbolic picture of a house, looking back to the 18th century. [12][15] In 2008, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat presented him with The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1991 Robert Venturi completed the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, which was modern but harmonized with the neoclassical architecture in and around Trafalgar Square. This double coding is a prevalent trait of postmodernism. For instance, at the front center, where the outside wall is superimposed upon the two other walls housing the stair, each juxtaposes openings of differing size and position, becoming layered space rather than interpenetrated space.". [56] Some postmodern architects, such as Robert A. M. Stern and Albert, Righter, & Tittman, have moved from postmodern design to new interpretations of traditional architecture. "[43], Postmodern architecture often breaks large buildings into several different structures and forms, sometimes representing different functions of those parts of the building. Retrieved September 12, 2016. This landmark monograph -- assembled in collaboration with the architects -- illustrates the firm's work between 1986 and 1998. The architect also resided there for a short time. The Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Architecture of Robert Venturi. NA737.V45A84 1989. discussion, p11-12. It borrowed freely from classical architecture, rococo, neoclassical architecture, the Vienna Secession, the British Arts and Crafts movement, the German Jugendstil. Artifice, 2001. Scarpa's cemetery achieves the solemn mood with the dull gray colors of the walls and neatly defined forms, but the bright green grass prevents this from being too overwhelming. The Sony Building in New York does this very well. This was in line with Scott Brown's belief that buildings should be built for people, and that architecture should listen to them. The irony comes when it is noted that the pillars are covered with steel. The house is This house recognizes complexities and contradictions. These can be seen in Hans Hollein's Abteiberg Museum (19721982). [16][17][a] In 1977, Pelli was selected to be the dean of the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, and served in that post until 1984. [3], In place of the functional doctrines of modernism, Venturi proposed giving primary emphasis to the faade, incorporating historical elements, a subtle use of unusual materials and historical allusions, and the use of fragmentation and modulations to make the building interesting. Christopher Mead, ed. Mulgrave: Images Publishing Group, 1993. Disarmingly simple after the The problem worsened when some already monotonous apartment blocks degenerated into slums. Consequently, on one side the fireplace distorts in shape and it and the chimney move over a little; on the other side the stair constricts its width and changes its path because of the chimney. It is centered on the idea of the chimney, the hearth, from which and you can feel itthe space is pulled. excerpt from Vincent Scully, 'Robert Venturi's Gentle Architecture.' The interior is centered around the fireplace, the hearth of the home, but still Venturi's design is a "generic" house with unusual twists. Yet, the top contradicts this. Designed for his elderly mother Vanna, Robert Venturi used the house as a canvas to demonstrate some of the complexities and contradictions in modern architecture. [citation needed], The Hood Museum of Art (19811983) has a typical asymmetrical faade which was at the time prevalent throughout postmodern buildings. Architectural historian Vincent Scully called it "the biggest small building of the second half of the twentieth century. Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown: Buildings and Projects. [29] That year, Pelli received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design of the Petronas Towers[30] Pelli's design for the National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan, was completed 2005, the same year that Pelli's firm changed its name to Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects to reflect the growing roles of senior principals Fred W. Clarke and Pelli's son Rafael. 1.1in. The plan contains only five functional rooms, and on the outside it relates to public scale, seeming much larger than it actually is. His Norton Residence in Venice, California (1983) built for a writer and former lifeguard, had a workroom modeled after a lifeguard tower overlooking the Santa Monica beach. "A Conversation with Cesar Pelli". The Vanna Venturi House is featured in a new PBS documentary called the 10 Buildings That Changed Americathat will debut next month. Updated edition available at Amazon.com. Complexity in combination with small scale in small buildings creates a nervous busyness - whereas big scale in this small building achieves an appropriate architectural tension. Architectural Digest. Hughes lives in the Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, which architect Robert Venturi designed for hisaging mother in the early 1960s. It is also paradoxical in the way he quotes Italian antiquity far away from the original in New Orleans. and introduction. The building is a tall skyscraper which brings with it connotations of very modern technology. [4] Accomplished architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown, who was Venturi's wife, and Venturi wrote Learning from Las Vegas (1972), co-authored with Steven Izenour, in which they further developed their joint argument against modernism. The list of aims is extended to include communicating ideas with the public often in a then humorous or witty way. The building could be interpreted equally plausibly as a Mayan temple or a piece of clanking art deco machinery'. p244-246, "The architect stresses that 'The house is big as well as little, by which I mean that it this a little house with big scale. All our texts and many of our images appear under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-SA). WebRobert Venturi Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, Scheme III B 1959-64. In 1935, he co-authored the famous catalog of the Museum of Modern Art exposition on the International Style, and studied with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard. The house was an early articulation of Venturis ideas about design, that pushed back hard against the conventions of pure modernism. First brought to attention in 1996, the style is notable for being designed and championed by indigenous Peruvians and Bolivians, and takes inspiration from ancient Inca and Andean designs.[57][58]. WebThe Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the neighborhood of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Venturi also minimized circulation space in the design of the house, so that it consisted of large distinct rooms with minimum subdivisions between them. [36], The Italian architect Aldo Rossi (19311997) was known for his postmodern works in Europe, the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the Netherlands, completed in 1995. Photo Credit: Steven Goldblatt. Photo Credit: Steven Goldblatt, Who needs functionality? Postmodern architecture has also been described as neo-eclectic, where reference and ornament have returned to the faade, replacing the aggressively unornamented modern styles. However, in the 1950s, he began to include certain playful and mannerist forms into his buildings, such as the Synagogue of Port Chester (19541956), with a vaulted plaster ceiling and narrow colored windows, and the Art Gallery of the University of Nebraska (1963). The two obtruding triangular forms are largely ornamental. With the chimney rising through the gable, the general parti derives from that of the Beach House. Dimensions. [28], The Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany, by James Stirling (19771983), Hanse-Viertel, a store gallery in Hamburg, Northern Germany, by Gerkan, Marg and Partners (1980), State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany by James Stirling (1980s), Amoreiras towers in Lisbon, by Toms Taveira (1985), No 1 Poultry, an office building and shops in London, by James Stirling (completed 1997), Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London by Robert Venturi (1991), Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany, by Helmut Jahn, (completed 1991), The SIS Building in London, UK, by Terry Farrell (1994), The Groninger Museum, Netherlands, by Alessandro Mendini et al., (completed 1994), Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam, Netherlands, by Adriaan Geuze (1996). These physical characteristics are combined with conceptual characteristics of meaning. It is a piece of sculptural architecture with no right angles and very few straight lines, a predecessor of the sculptural contemporary architecture of the 21st century. Retrieved September 12, 2016. However, the mere fact that they could have been replaced with a practically invisible nail, makes their exaggerated existence largely ornamental. [10], Norton Beach House, Venice, California (1983), Frank Gehry (born 1929) was a major figure in postmodernist architecture, and is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary architecture. Concurrently, the recent movements of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture promote a sustainable approach toward construction, that appreciates and develops smart growth, architectural tradition and classical design. And he took delight in breaking those rules such as the idea that decoration has no place on buildings. [12] Two of his most notable projects are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur[13] and the World Financial Center in New York City. Rejecting the "puritanism" of modernism, it called for a return to ornament, and an accumulation of citations and collages borrowed from past styles. LC 88-33889. For instance, there is a Modernist ribbon window for the kitchen and square windows serving the bedroom and bathroom on the other side of the front facade. Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and Robert Charles Venturi built the Vanna Venturi House for his widowed mother in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in the early 1960s. [12][15] In May 2004, Pelli was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Minnesota Duluth where he designed Weber Music Hall. Inside, rather than providing the order and simplicity that the modernists worshipped, Venturis design chose to surprise, even jar people, with its contradictions. Beyond Chicago from the Air with Geoffrey Baer. The Museum of Wood Culture by Tadao Ando (1995), Bennesse House in Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan by Tadao Ando, Art Tower in Mito, Ibaraki by Isozaki Arata (19861990), Kyoto Concert Hall in Kyoto, Japan by Isozaki Arata (1995), Kyoto Train Station in Kyoto by Hiroshi Hara (19911997), The Japanese architects Tadao Ando (born 1941) and Isozaki Arata (born 1931) introduced the ideas of the postmodern movement to Japan. Before opening his studio in Osaka in 1969, Ando traveled widely in North America, Africa and Europe, absorbing European and American styles, and had no formal architectural education, though he taught later at Yale University (1987), Columbia University (1988) and Harvard University (1990). The most notable among their characteristics is their playfully extravagant forms and the humour of the meanings the buildings conveyed. Interior of Cambridge Judge Business School in Cambridge, UK by John Outram (1995), Humour. His Schnabel House in Los Angeles (19861989) was broken into individual structures, with a different structure for every room. Most of his buildings were constructed of raw concrete in cubic forms, but had wide openings which brought in light and views of the nature outside. After many years of neglect, ornament returned. Hotel Dolphin by Michael Graves, Walt Disney World Florida (1987), Postmodern architecture first emerged as a reaction against the doctrines of modern architecture, as expressed by modernist architects including Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Summarize this article for a 10 years old, The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the neighborhood of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. "Plans and elevations are built on a rigid axial, even Palladian, symmetry, which becomes monumental in the street faced but looser at the extremities and rear of the house, in keeping with the domestic program. The influence of the Sydney Opera House, can be seen in later concert halls with soaring roofs made of undulating stainless steel. Michael J. Crosbie. "Introduction: A Conversation with Cesar Pelli." In-depth analysis and commentary on today's biggest news stories as only the BBC can deliver. I like elements which are hybrid rather than "pure", compromising rather than "clean" accommodating rather than excluding. "UMD to honor Weber Music Hall architect at commencement May 13". In the late 1990s, it divided into a multitude of new tendencies, including high-tech architecture, neo-futurism, new classical architecture, and deconstructivism. [53][54] This in contrast to modernist and globally uniform architecture, as well as leaning against solitary housing estates and suburban sprawl. WHYY will air the full documentary on May 12at 10pm. The structure which Venturi caracterised as "a little house with big scale, symbolizing shelter" is centered on the chimney and hearth; the chimney splits the structure and space extend outward from the hearth. Similar ideas were and projects were put forward at the Venice Biennale in 1980. Its exhilarating, Hughes said. The building units all fit together in a very organic way, which enhances the effect of the forms. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. A "nowhere stair" on the second floor also integrates itself into the core space. I used to try to draw the house when I was away. Drawing upon the Spanish Revival architecture of the city hall, Moore designed the Beverly Hills Civic Center in a mixture of Spanish Revival, Art Deco and postmodern styles. The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley blends in with both the neo-Renaissance architecture of the Berkeley campus and with picturesque early 20th century wooden residential architecture in the neighboring Berkeley Hills. The Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh has also been cited as being of postmodern vogue. [1] However, some buildings built after this period are still considered postmodern.[2]. NA705.R67 1979. exterior photo, f266, plan drawing, f267, discussion, p312. Postmodern buildings had curved forms, decorative elements, asymmetry, bright colours, and features often borrowed from earlier periods. ", "The inside spaces are complex both in shapes and interrelationships. But her father worked withVenturi Scott Brown Associates to develop a preservation easement that will protect the design integrity of the Venturi House. Click through to learn more. Venturi cited the examples of his wife's and his own buildings, Guild House, in Philadelphia, as examples of a new style that welcomed variety and historical references, without returning to academic revival of old styles. His Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut (1949), inspired by a similar house by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe became an icon of the modernist movement. The exterior, with its sloping roofs and glided faade, was a distinct break from the earlier, more austere modernist concert halls. The fact that a number of the major players in the shift away from modernism were trained at Princeton University's School of Architecture, where recourse to history continued to be a part of design training in the 1940s and 1950s, was significant. Critics of the reductionism of modernism often noted the abandonment of the teaching of architectural history as a causal factor. However, he does so with a twist. Photo Credit: Steven Goldblatt, Inside, Venturi played with ideas of scale and symmetry, challenging modernist ideas. Rossi was the first Italian to win the most prestigious award in architecture, the Pritzker Prize, in 1990. A second generation of scholars then emerged that began to extend these efforts in the direction of what is now called "theory": K. Michael Hays (PhD, MIT) at Harvard, Mark Wigley (PhD, Auckland University) at Princeton (now at Columbia University), and Beatriz Colomina (PhD, School of Architecture, Barcelona) at Princeton; Mark Jarzombek (PhD MIT) at Cornell (now at MIT), Jennifer Bloomer (PhD, Georgia Tech) at Iowa State and Catherine Ingraham (PhD, Johns Hopkins) now at Pratt Institute. Humor is a particular feature of many postmodern buildings, particularly in the United States. LC 84-3543. 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