Lecture 9 postmodernism

History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Postmodernism

History of Architecture-II (AP-313)

POSTMODERNISM Part I

LECTURE 9

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http://www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egypte.html


WHAT IS MODERNISM


• Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution

• Search for the Absolute truth– Man’s destiny is in Man’s hand

“Less is More”

“A house is a machine to live in”

“Form follows function”

WHAT IS MODERNISM


WHAT IS REALLY REAL?

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Piet Mondrian



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“ Abstraction alone is not enough to eliminate the naturalistic from

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The Treachery of Images, René Magritte, 1928-29


THIS IS NOT A PIPE, BUT THIS IS A HOUSE!

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1928-29

1962-64


CAN POST-MODERNISM BE DEFINED


“Defining our world today as Post-Modern is rather like defining women as ‘non-men’. It doesn’t tell us very much, either flattering or predictive. All it says is what we have left – the Modern world, which is paradoxically doomed, like an obsolete futurist, to extinction. And there is another linguistic puzzle. How can the world be Post-Modern, magically preserved like some creature in Alice in Wonderland, beyond the present tense? Do we inhabit only the past, or future.”

~ Charles Jencks (1987)

WHAT COULD BE POST-MODERNISM


“[Postmodern]movements show to some degree that double aspect of the term:

-They are, at once, a continuation of Modernism and its transcendence.

- they accept the irreversible nature of the modern world and modernization, but deny this cuts us off from the pre-modern past, and this past is as much a part of the present as any aspect of the twentieth century.”





Transcending Modernism

Continuing Modernism

No ElitismArchitecture as Public Art

Intellectual product for those who understand

Dual Coding


“Post-modern Architecture is doubly coded, half-Modern and half-conventional, in its attempt to communicate with both the public and a concerned minority, usually architects”




Modern – Latin , MODO ~ “Just Now”



“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant”

~ Jean François (1979), ‘The Postmodern Condition’



POST-MODERNISM Vs LATE MODERNISM

LATE MODERNISM POST-MODERNISMModernist Values• Expression of Technology•Circulation and Efficiency

•City Context•Values of the mass•Personal means of architectural expressions such as ornament

PRAGMATIC PLURALIST


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Vanna Venturi House, Philadelphia , Robert Venturi, 1959-64


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"Less is a bore." ,1966


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CHARLES MOORE – PIAZZA D’ITALIA

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New Orleans, 1978



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MICHAEL GRAVES– PORTLAND BUILDING

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Portland, 1982


PHILIP JOHNSON– AT&T / SONY BUILDING

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REFERENCE

Charles Jencks. 1977. The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. Academy Editions. ISBN 0856709336

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