There is no way back, we are all Postmodern now. Can you stay behind? Do you really care that Postmodernism destroyed the ideals of Modernism? Come on, — Failed Architecture
"If you are reading this, you probably already have a certain interest in architecture, but chances are that you never warmed up to those kinds of buildings from the late 70s, 80s and early 90s, generally classified as ‘Postmodern’. The architecture of these buildings is often based on a loose set of ideas that gained importance when Modernist architecture failed to reinvent itself in the 70s. Their designs often show a preference for fragmentation, provocation, irony and distorted references to historical styles. According to Sam Jacob, Postmodern architecture can also be ‘mean, sarcastic, blank, difficult, challenging, yet somehow simultaneously psychedelically positive’. And finally, its individualistic tendencies are often associated with the neoliberal, corporate turn in spatial production during the 80s.
In short, it is often difficult to like. But soon you will, for the following reasons. "
Can you handle it? It is like.., "they will come." Could this time, though, pomo push rendering architecture to the edge and then, down? Maybe this be the better pop moment? Or, using the level language, it is just another thing?
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I'm on board for this. It's more fun to like architecture than criticize it.
Been waiting for this... Postmodern is just so fun compared to modernism.
>>>Eco, in his essay introduction to "The name of the rose" argued that “The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently".
Postmodernism as a contemporary condition in which culture turns in on itself, recycling and reworking the products of the past?
Despite this idea, I still think postmodern "variation" is not opposed to "invention": there are plenty of postmodern architectures in which the form focuses on the creative process, reflecting the functional aspects of the processes taking place in the creative mind.
This point emerges very clearly in postmodern architectural drawing.
#6 Postmodern architecture is rapidly disappearing.
Finally, something to like about it.
>>>Jameson writes: "It is essential to grasp postmodernism not as a style but rather as a cultural dominant: a conception which allows for the presence and coexistence of a range of very different, yet subordinate features".
Ed Soja on Bonaventure Hotel and Post-Modern City. "We must develop an understanding of the spatiality of post modernism. Post Modernity is not a simple construction of Disney world's fantasy but it is production of a kind of hyper-reality that is more real than the reality itself."
"...in our media-saturated times it falls to architecture to have the direct aesthetic experience of the real at the center of its concerns." - Michael Benedikt
Kos Scarpa Kos, I'd be interested in your take how post-modernism might do this based on Jameson's qoute. or in other words, what is limited by excluding designed Post-Modernism and sticking say to modernism, parametricism?
PoMo is the reason nobody takes architects seriously anymore. I'm with Miles.
in suburbia pomo is used as a corporate invisibility cloak...masking the non-local modern nature of big chain stores with "old world" styles. The most dishonest use of architecture I have ever seen.
and what does Modernism hide?
filth...look at the first mcdonalds...also, I would say it hides "oldness" Like a modern cathedral where patrons consume the same old outdated text as in the gothic cathedral...or...energy sucking modern mansions...the illusion of hi-tech...same old things in shiny new packaging...
Much Architecture is propaganda...Honest Architecture is rare...
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