Post-Modern architecture has different themes. So I like to know these themes pls.
A few themes of ''Postmodern Architecture", according to Charles Jencks: Hybrid expression, Variable space with surprises, Eclectic, Semiotic articulation, Variable mixed aesthetic depending on context; expression of content and semantic appropriateness towards function, Pro-organic and applied ornament (structure/construction as ornement), Pro-representation, Pro-methaphor, Pro-historical reference, Pro-humour, Pro-symbolic, Collage/collision.
To see: Charles Jencks , Late-Modern Architecture (London: Academy Editions, 1980); Charles Jencks (Ed.), Post-Modern Classicism (Architectural Design 5/6, 1980
Hi Akram,
I've noticed that often you ask a question and after a while you respond to your question with quite good answers. Would you mind breaking the rule and first write your answer to this question? I'm curious to read it.
Best,
Aryan
@akram btw another alternative on RG is to start a "discussion" rather than ask a "question".
More vital before it was labeled, Post-Modernism (in architecture) began as an attempt to recover figuration and referentiality -- more broadly, cultural relevance -- from the oversimplification and abstraction enforced by the orthodox Modernism of, say, Gropius and Mies. By the time of Charles Jencks's The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977), PM was well on the way to becoming just another style, and discredited as such.
The crucial document is Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966). As Jencks suggests in a helpful recent article -- "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Turns 50" (Architectural Record 204/5, May 2016, 58-59) -- Venturi's chapter headings provide a list of themes that might begin to answer this question: "Nonstraightforward Architecture", "Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness", "Ambiguity", "'Both-And' in Architecture", "The Double-Functioning Element", "The Conventional Element" . . . "The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole".
As far as I'm concerned, the PM style label only obscured the real contributions of masters like Venturi, Graves, and Moore. I'm encouraged to see that recent generations of students seem willing to look beyond the label and learn from the work itself.
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Roh.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_architecture
Dear Aryan Shahabian,
There are many themes of ''Postmodern Architecture'' such as history and historicism, meaning and place, urban theories, and ethics in architecture.
Postmodernism broke from the shackles of modernism allowing, as it were, references to previous historical trends and styles, as Robert Ferguson has alluded to—in fact, it widened its remit to allow anything, even humour and almost a childlike joy of living.
Post-modernism is purely to correct the austere and bare face architecture hoisted on us by advocate of modern architecture and international style
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Design
- Architecture