The opposite of modernism, the new isn't going to make everything better.
Le Corbusier 'a machine for living in' redefining what a building is.
Berlin, eastern half flattened in the world war. Giant grand buildings sit amongst Russian concrete buildings.
Post Modernism recycles ideas from the past and questions if there is anything 'new' to actually make, hasn't it already been done?
Characteristics of Po-Mo:
> Exhaustion
>Pluralism
>Pessimism
>Disillusionment
Modernism expressed the new technologies and modern life where as post modernism is a reaction to new technologies and modern life.
1960
Jean Tingualy 'Homage to New York'
A giant mechanical contraption of multiple pieces moving around which eventually blew up (on purpose) A gesture of post modernism, reacting to technology
1960 - Po-Mo began
1970 - Established as a term
1980 - Recognisable style
1980/90 -Dominant theoretical discourse, taught in art schools
Today - Tired and simmering
We are now described as being 'late modernity'
Charles Jenks believed modernism died on the 15th July 1972 at 3.32 pm after the demolition of the Pruitt - Igore development in St Louis
Post Modernism questioned conventions (especially those set out of modernism) Embracing many ways of doing things rather than following one path, the only rule is there are no rules.
Sheffield Park Hill Flats, regenerated by Urban Splash. Gone from undesirable and run down to desired by young professionals.
1982 NYV AT + T building follows a grid until the top of it which resembles a grand father clock.
1997 Frank Gehry Bilbao was a run down fishing town until this building was built, it attracted tourists.
The Leeds look of architecture came about as Leeds tried to be revolutionary in the post modern era. The combination of red brick and sandstone was very iconic at the time.
Quinlan Terry, an architect who designs buildings in a classic style
NYC - modernist
VEGAS - post modernist, anything goes, very random
Blade runner portrays a stereotypical post modern city.
Ultimate figure of PoMo is Andy Warhol. the exact opposite of modernism. Didn't really know what he was doing. It was about a production line and making things on mass, a project of anti-art.
This is the opposite of someone like Pollack who was very expressive in his work and created work with emotion behind it.
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