Postmodern Post-Mortem: Why We Need To Stop Using Architecture's Most Misunderstood Word
We were hoping for it to happen in the early 2000s. We saw it coming with the opening of the exhibition ?Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 ? 1990? at the V&A in London in 2011. But now, after recent discussions on the umpteenth supposed ?postmodern revival,? it is finally sure: the word ?postmodernism? is back and it?s here to stay. But as clear as it is that the word ?postmodernism? is once again fashionable, it is not really clear what we mean when using it. Indeed, this word has been used to imply every possible meaning: architects have used it to describe fashionable and ?cute? designs, some critics have used it to categorize everything that is colorful, while some theorists have been using it to affirm that, because of this concept, architecture has surrendered to technology or form, becoming nothing more than a caricature of its own presupposed moral values.
© Giacomo Pala
We were hoping for it to happen in the early 2000s. We saw it coming with the opening of the exhibition ?Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 ? 1990? at the V&A in London in 2011. But now, after recent discussions on the umpteenth supposed ?postmodern revival,? it is finally sure: the word ?postmodernism? is back and it?s here to stay. But as clear as it is that the word ?postmodernism? is once again fashionable, it is not really clear what we mean when using it. Indeed, this word has been used to imply every possible meaning: architects have used it to describe f...
© Giacomo Pala
We were hoping for it to happen in the early 2000s. We saw it coming with the opening of the exhibition ?Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 ? 1990? at the V&A in London in 2011. But now, after recent discussions on the umpteenth supposed ?postmodern revival,? it is finally sure: the word ?postmodernism? is back and it?s here to stay. But as clear as it is that the word ?postmodernism? is once again fashionable, it is not really clear what we mean when using it. Indeed, this word has been used to imply every possible meaning: architects have used it to describe f...
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