Comparison Of Post-Modernism And The Modern Movement

Though the start of the modernisation may trace back to the beginning of Industrial Revolution. “Modernism in the design world did not exist in a fully developed form, until well after First World War.” (Wilk, 2006) Causing the great loss of lives and other countless damage to the world, it reshaped many people’s way of thinking the world. With the inspiration of early avant-garde movement, the modernism began to emerge advocating an utopian future and shared certain core principles by various styles of modernists: rejecting the past and applied ornament; forms follow function, a preference for

One of the most recognized architectural movements are the modern movements which comprise of the International Style, Art Deco Style, and Moderne Style. Modern Movements occurred between 1925 and 1950. Out of the three styles of architecture, International Style has been selected for this art analysis. The International Style of Architecture occurred between 1920s and 1930s, and it is characterized by starkly unornamented rectangular shapes which are very different from the traditional forms of architecture. The reason why International Style of architecture has been chosen for analysis in this paper is the fact that the rectangular shapes used in constructing the style have been punctuated with bands of windows which depict the modern purpose

To fully appreciate the differences and similarities between Postmodernism and Modernism, it is required to understand exactly what they are. Modernism is the term we give to the accumulated creations and activities of designers in the early 20th century, who had the theory that traditional forms of literature, religion, social organization, and most of all, art and architecture, had become outdated in the new social, political, and economic environment of a fully industrialised world. One of the main characteristics of Modernism is self-consciousness, which typically caused exstensive experimentations of form and function. The creative process of generating work was also explored, forming new techniques in design. Modernism rejected all ideology of realism and prefers to reference and parody works of the past. Postmodernism, on the other hand, is a radical rejection of Modernist design. Taking place in the late 20th century, it is a movement in art, criticism, and architecture that disputes the majority of modernist tendencies. The Postmodernist analysis of society and culture lead to the expansion of critical theory and advanced the works of architecture, literature, and design. This entire re-evaluation of the western value system of popular culture, love, marriage, economy, that took place from the 1950s and 60s, leading to the peak of the Social Revolution in 1968, is commonly referred as Postmodernity which influenced postmodern thought, as opposed to the term

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

Modern style was very flat and traditional. Postmodernism had a style of being historical, using geometric shapes along the buildings, and very colorful. The idea from being different than the rest of the architecture makes a

Postmodernism is a universal movement, present in every art and discipline. In architecture, postmodernism is precise as well as ambiguous thereby in need of an explorative pursuit for a consensus of what is meant by the movement in this perspective - between the works of Charles Jencks, a primary theorist of this architectural turn; Heinrich Klotz, a leading architectural critic; and William Curtis, an architectural historian. The progression of this paper is highly influenced with Jencks’ studies as his works are often times referenced as well by both Klotz and Curtis in their individual interpretations and further accompanied with either supporting statements or contradictions.

Although, most post-modernist architects had been associated with modern architects in terms of training during the twentieth century, they refused most their teachers ideas. In addition, today's architects cannot deny the modern architecture ways of designing any building. Their design, for instance, has many philosophical meaning such as constructional, environmental, sociological, commercial and metaphorical meaning.

In his seminal lecture on Modernism in Architecture at McGill University School of Architecture on 21 October 2000, Arthur Erickson espoused Modernism as an artistic movement that “released [society] from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom” (Erickson, 2000). Modernism, as an artistic movement, is defined as a genre that aimed to transcend and subvert the limitations of traditional literary conventions of the Romantic, Realist and Victorian literary movements, and eagerly championed for new and innovative experimentation in both form and style (Cooper, pg. 9). Flowered into Society by

Modernism aims for clarity of forms and elimination of un necessary detail similarly to the above point the reintroduction of ornament to architecture allowed people to express themselves and in also the introduction of symbolism into the designs. Instead of plain walls and minimal furniture people began to introduce patterns into furniture and wall décor. Although sometimes limited it allowed people to express themselves. Even in architecture this is seen through the use of statues, these are symbolic, and are used to represent something or someone. Postmodernist were looking to break the rules set by the modernist. The wanted seeks meaning and expression in the use of building techniques, forms, and stylistic

Many people ask what is the difference between the past, the modern and the post modern ? Nowadays, all what people think about is what is going to happen in the future and how technology would get more advanced. Furthermore, technology had evolved throughout the past years which helped in making life a lot easier for humans. People differ in their opinions about how the world will change in the future, some may think the technology will bring us the comfort and the easiness out of life; however, others think technology will let us become the sluggish humans on earth which will lead to destroying the real meaning of life. The answer to how would the past be different from the post modern varies because

The second part of this essay is devoted to post-modernism. I have chosen two periods of Modernism and Post-Modernism as they are so much interconnected, the further development of modernism resulted in forming another movement in art, called as post-modernism. The word ‘post-modernism’ is over used nowadays and it gives the impression of being just nothing behind the popular buzzword. Although, it is a separate movement, which has a number of commonalities with modernism art, but at the same time has significantly different characteristics. [12]

The modern architectural style allows the architect to showcase to the world the natural form of the building. This style requires the architects to design buildings with exposed features. Homes modelled based on this style tend to be very aesthetic and comfortable to the residents. The

Modern architecture was produced during a period of transformation broadly categorized as modernity. Modernity should not be equipped with the social, political, economic, and technological transformation which began in the seventeenth century and continued well into the twentieth century. Rather, it must be understood at the attitudes towards whose changes. Modernity has been variously described as: a slow transformation and re-evaluation of our relationship with the past; a complete break from the past; a celebration of the chaos brought about by technological changes in industry, transportation and communication; a loss of tradition and home; a project of modernization and progress towards a better world; and a permanent state of transformation and change. Modern architecture is defined as a term used to describe simplified and unornamented building styles of the late 19th and 20th century, as a reaction towards the design of excesses to the design excesses of the Victorian and Edwardian period. Qualities of this style consist of being inspired by the machine aesthetics. In other words letting the materials and structuring help determine the form and define the building according to its functional requirements and materials to be used. Clean and simplified forms were preferred and all unnecessary details were banished. An example of modern architecture can be explained and seen by Zaha Hadid’s Vitra Fire Station built in 1990. Constructed as a closure at the end of a

This essay will critically discuss the development of Post Modernism as a reaction to Modernism and the growth of the architectural style as an individual movement.

Twentieth century is marked with two epochs, first half is known as modernism and second half is named as postmodernism. In the latter half of twentieth century there was an overall transferal in terms of culture, economics, religion, history, linguistics, social behavior, philosophy, arts, architecture, and literature. The world has entered into a new phenomenon that is being defined with the prefix of ‘post’. For istance from structuralism to poststructuralism, colonialism to postcolonialism, positivism to postpositivism and modernism to postmodernism. In Location of Culture Homi K Bhabha has defined the prefix of ‘post’ under the context of post colonialism. He is of the view that ‘post’ is such a prefix that does not give any direction rather it is directionless. The word which he has used to define this prefix is ‘beyond’ (Bhabha, 1994) and defined that in this world beyond, there is no direction.