Comparison Between Modern and Postmodern Architecture
Comparison Between Modern and Postmodern Architecture
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Comparison between Modern and Postmodern Architecture:
-Time Frame: Late 19th and early 20th Began in the mid-20th century.
century.
- The duration of the Influenced by first world war. Influenced by the second world war.
war:
-Rational and Logical Based on using rational and Sensitivity to the challenges and ethical
Thinking: logical means to gain knowledge issues of gathering information face-to-
since it rejected realism. face, in people’s homes.
• Order • Fluidity
• Clear Distinctions • Negotiable Meaning
-versus: • Predictability • Uncertainty
• Control • Uncertainty
• Future-orientation • Present-orientation
• Production • Consumption
-Structure: Rigid bureaucracies Flexible networks
Believes in learning from the Ignores any text narrating the past and
-The effect of the
past experiences and trusts the believes it is useless in the present time.
past:
texts that narrate the past.
• The related concept of "Truth • Diverse in spirit and in style, and the
to materials", meaning that the ways it defines itself-architects combine
true nature or natural appearance disparate elements from previous
of a material ought to be seen architectural eras and styles in the same
rather than concealed or altered building
to represent something else
• Rejects the notion of “pure” or “perfect”
• Use of industrially-produced detail, instead it draws from: all methods,
materials; adoption of the materials, forms, & colors available to
machine aesthetic architects
-Materials used: Stone- Marble- Iron – Cement- Glass Reinforced Polyester and exterior
Reinforced Concrete- metal panel systems and polycarbonate
Steel and Glass. sheets and dupont’s Fabric Tensile
Structures-Reinforced Concrete- Steel
and Glass.
-Sameness Charactricties:
1. Rejecting boundaries between hig and low form of art
-Difference Charactricties:
1. Modernism tends to present a fragmentated view of human subjectivity and history and
present it as something tragic. But, postmodernism instead doesn’t lament the idea of
fragmentation but chelebrates that.
2. Modernism is characterized by the radical break from the traditional forms of prose and verse
whereas; postmodernism is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and
conventions.
-Modernism: -postmodernism: