80's and 90's Flashcards
(44 cards)
“Post modernism was an outgrowth of modernism just as modernism itself was an outgrow of the Enlightenment of the 19th Century”
-Phillip Tabb
According to Charles Jencks, it celebrates hybridity, which showed the mixture of opposing periods as in past, present, and future.
Post Modernism
It possessed multiple codes containing global technology and local culture of modern architectural elements with vernacular forms.
Post Modernism
Modernism vs Postmodernism
Modernism concerns with principles such as identity, unity, authority, objective knowledge, authenticity, reason, and certainty.
Whereas Postmodernism, it associates itself with difference, plurality, non-linearity, relativism, mutability, skepticism, and social constructivism.
instead of adapting exaggerated solar forms, postmodernism opt to adapt local vernacular forms and materials while still appropriating modernist elements and details (or departed completely, such for the example of deconstructivism)
While post modernism was seeking greater meaning and aesthetic, one quality that seemed to be missing is “authenticity”
1980’s
An Architectural Theoretician, states that:
“Modern architecture is both inhumane and inherently anti-nature. Modern architecture, like modern science that enabled it, was understood to be the principal source of environmental degradation, not its cure.”
Steven Moore
Constructed in 1962.
An icon and harbinger for post modernism that fully manifested in the 1980s.
Vanna Venturi house
The design maintained axial symmetry and balance with the duality created by the bifurcated sheer facade.
Vanna Venturi house
The Vanna Venturi house did provide a connection to the use of historic vernacular forms with integrated modernist details, which challenge modernist architect to open the door for a greening architecture especially at a residential scale.
Vanna Venturi house
by Philip Johnson, which became immediately controversial largely because of its adorned ornamental top.
The AT&T Building
Qualities of Green Architecture in Postmodernism
With Post Modernism expressing dissatisfaction with the vapid effects of modernity, the movement brought these “redeeming qualities” which are:
Pluralism Complexity Double Coding Historical Contextualism Hybridity
Modernism’s reduced overly objective and singular levels of abstraction that could not capture the richness of diversity.
Pluralism
Pluralism in Green Architecture allows multiple design agendas and elements of expression, grafting sustainable technologies into vernacular languages. It allows modern technologies, materials and details to be appropriated in postmodern and sustainable ways
Pluralism
Modernism’s focus on efficiency, function, and simplicity reduced the expression of elaboration, variability, and scale.
Complexity
Modernism stripped away modernism, symbolism, and reference through abstraction rather than conveying multiple levels of meaning, ambiguity, connotation, and simultaneous forms of expression.
Double Coding
is the presence of tectonic hybridity in response to multivalent environmental phenomena, and the expression of eclectic architectural languages.
Double Coding
Modernism supported the reduction and even elimination of local constituent architectural features in favor of ones that were universal and homogenized.
relates to the historical precedents, climatic conditions, and cultural characteristic of the place.
Contextualism:
Modernism sought a universality and homogeneity of form and function, structure and technology, and materials and details.
In Green Architecture, _______certainly had relevance in the mixes of conventional and alternative technologies, local and universal materials, but also to the differing architectural languages.
Hybridity
_____ was referred to as a process where the architectural heritage was prolonged and the integrity of character was maintained through carefully planned interventions.
Conservation
This includes the identity, style, form, and materials of the building.
Conservation
_____ was a more protective practice focused on the built environment especially with the historic significance.
Preservation
In architecture, issues of integrity, authenticity, and accuracy were a challenge, especially with the need of new programs of use.
Preservation
Started the Preservation Movement.
He advocated that these iconic wildernesses be preserved for future generations as part of that cultural heritage and quickly gained “ear of movers and shakers” at the time.
John Muir
____ was less a specific practice and was more of a mode of thinking that gave significance to mutable interpretations to local contexts, historical periods, and geographical places.
Historicism
