“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of postmodernism”. In 1980, reporting on the First Ve... more “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of postmodernism”. In 1980, reporting on the First Venice Architecture Biennale, French journalist Gérard-Georges Lemaire adapted Marx and Engels’ famous formula, used as opening passages of The Communist Manifesto, in order to describe the state of affaire in European architectural culture. But what exactly had happen to architecture between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s?
Starting from the general assumption that postmodernism is the era that follows modernism; this seminar aimed at defining the term postmodern in relation to architecture. With the demise of the Modern Movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, architects from Europe and America (amongst others) increasingly started to use historical references, colour and ornament, while aiming at communication through a polysemic architectural production. In order to convey “meaning”, postmodern architects used diverse modalities of reference such as nostalgia, satire, parody, melancholia, allegory, irony and pastiche.
This theoretical seminar has served to replace the concepts of postmodernity/postmodernism/postmodern within an historical, architectural and artistic context. Following this theoretical and historical exploration of international postmodernism, students were asked to further explore the particularities of postmodernism within the scandinavian context. In the final workshop for this course, students produced an original research (ideally using unexplored archives related to postmodernism). The result of these researches are presented in this volume.
“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of postmodernism”. In 1980, reporting on the First Ve... more “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of postmodernism”. In 1980, reporting on the First Venice Architecture Biennale, French journalist Gérard-Georges Lemaire adapted Marx and Engels’ famous formula, used as opening passages of The Communist Manifesto, in order to describe the state of affaire in European architectural culture. But what exactly had happen to architecture between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s?
Starting from the general assumption that postmodernism is the era that follows modernism; this seminar aimed at defining the term postmodern in relation to architecture. With the demise of the Modern Movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, architects from Europe and America (amongst others) increasingly started to use historical references, colour and ornament, while aiming at communication through a polysemic architectural production. In order to convey “meaning”, postmodern architects used diverse modalities of reference such as nostalgia, satire, parody, melancholia, allegory, irony and pastiche.
This theoretical seminar has served to replace the concepts of postmodernity/postmodernism/postmodern within an historical, architectural and artistic context. Following this theoretical and historical exploration of international postmodernism, students were asked to further explore the particularities of postmodernism within the scandinavian context. In the final workshop for this course, students produced an original research (ideally using unexplored archives related to postmodernism). The result of these researches are presented in this volume.
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Starting from the general assumption that postmodernism is the era that follows modernism; this seminar aimed at defining the term postmodern in relation to architecture. With the demise of the Modern Movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, architects from Europe and America (amongst others) increasingly started to use historical references, colour and ornament, while aiming at communication through a polysemic architectural production. In order to convey “meaning”, postmodern architects used diverse modalities of reference such as nostalgia, satire, parody, melancholia, allegory, irony and pastiche.
This theoretical seminar has served to replace the concepts of postmodernity/postmodernism/postmodern within an historical, architectural and artistic context. Following this theoretical and historical exploration of international postmodernism, students were asked to further explore the particularities of postmodernism within the scandinavian context. In the final workshop for this course, students produced an original research (ideally using unexplored archives related to postmodernism). The result of these researches are presented in this volume.
Starting from the general assumption that postmodernism is the era that follows modernism; this seminar aimed at defining the term postmodern in relation to architecture. With the demise of the Modern Movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, architects from Europe and America (amongst others) increasingly started to use historical references, colour and ornament, while aiming at communication through a polysemic architectural production. In order to convey “meaning”, postmodern architects used diverse modalities of reference such as nostalgia, satire, parody, melancholia, allegory, irony and pastiche.
This theoretical seminar has served to replace the concepts of postmodernity/postmodernism/postmodern within an historical, architectural and artistic context. Following this theoretical and historical exploration of international postmodernism, students were asked to further explore the particularities of postmodernism within the scandinavian context. In the final workshop for this course, students produced an original research (ideally using unexplored archives related to postmodernism). The result of these researches are presented in this volume.