>>>hola Olaf >>>I have read just now your post regarding Postmodernism, Jameson, Orhan Ayyüce's quote etc... this matter interests me.
Starting
by saying that Postmodernism is a condition – the postmodern
condition indeed – I don't think it's completely exact to define it
as a style. I would rather consider it a theme. Of course there are
works which focus on this topic and in which this theme gives us
stylistic information about the work itself too. Nevertheless, in
Postmodernism there is a detachment between the decipherability of
the shape and its theoretical premises, as it does not represent a
consequential development. Between the visual shape and its
theoretical premises there is what Jameson calls “feature”, the
possibilities of multiple stylistic developments.
>>>Postmodernism
represents a basic theoretical model that contains many “features”,
differences so distant one from the other that we can hardly group
them together. One of those many “features” is the concept of
“variation” of a matrix.
>>>it's evident that the PoMo brings the concept of “variation” to the center of architectonical and artistic practice, but it would be limiting to think about this as being its most representative model.
>>>the extent of “features” quoted by J. is so relevant that it can include also irony (in the forms that people think are common in the mainstream culture) without making it lose anything of its intensity and coherence. The contaminations with the mainstream culture represent a very fascinating development of the PoMo in architecture and art too...
10 may 2016
>>>illustration frontispiece for the second edition of Laugier's Essay on Architecture (1755), arguably one of the most famous images in the history of architecture. For Laugier, this primitive form represents the first architectural idea and an abstract concept.
Hut/tent: the same form could stand for a number of different concepts, and multiple shapes could be used to represent the same concept. At the same time, numerous interpretations can be suggested for the “HOME” icon (a new contemporary Laugier's hut?).
10 may 2017
https://archinect.com/forum/thread/149997831/resurrection-city-and-architect-john-wiebenson
https://archinect.com/forum/thread/149944351/olaf-postmodernism-jameson-orhan-etc
