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	Alt.Postmodern FAQ
		Postmodernism, on the contrary, is committed to modes of thinking and representation which emphasize fragmentations, discontinuities and incommensurable aspects of a given object, from intellectual systems to architecture.
		The postmodern challenge constitutes not only a diverse body of cultural criticism, it must also be seen as a contextual discourse that has challenged specific disciplinary boundaries in such fields as literary studies, geography, educa- tion, architecture, feminism, performance art, anthropology, sociology, and many other areas.
		A postmodern artist or writer is in the position of a philosopher: the text he writes, the work he produces are not in principle governed by preestablished rules, and they cannot be judged according to a determining judgment, by applying familiar categories to the text or to the work.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/postmodern-faq (7246 words)

	Postmodern architecture - Definition, explanation
		Postmodernity or postmodern architecture is a period whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950's, which runs through the present.
		Postmodernity in architecture is generally thought to be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism.
		Postmodern architecture has also been described as "neo-eclectic", where reference and ornament have returned to the facade, replacing the aggressively unornamented modern styles as, for example, in this building from Boston Massachusetts.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/po/postmodern_architecture.php (557 words)

	Postmodern architecture Information
		Transitional examples of postmodern architecture are the Portland Building in Portland, OR and Sony Building (New York City) (originally ATandT Building) in New York City, which borrows elements and references from the past and reintroduces color and symbolism to architecture.
		Postmodern architecture has also been described as "neo-eclectic", where reference and ornament have returned to the facade, replacing the aggressively unornamented modern styles.
		The divergence in opinions comes down to a difference in goals: modernism is rooted in minimal and true use of material as well as absence of ornament, while postmodernism is a rejection of strict rules set by the early modernists and seeks exuberance in the use of building techniques, angles, and stylistic references.
	www.bookrags.com /Postmodern_architecture (360 words)

	Postmodern Architecture
		The style of architecture during Postmodernism is also a deliberate opposite to the formalism abundant in the Modernist architecture.
		Postmodern architecture is laden with interesting lines and curves, and sometimes includes elaborate ornamentation, which is all an attempt to mirror the postmodern desire to focus on the surface of things.
		Postmodern architecture relies on a uniquely represented exterior, often carrying over onto the interior of the building, because of the desire to create an aesthetically pleasing surface which was such a repetitious Postmodernist value.
	www.wsu.edu /~lauren_clark/pomoarchitecture.html (280 words)

	Postmodernism and Architecture
		Some argue that postmodernism is a reaction to the forces of "creative destruction." But it can be a tool for those powers as well.
		Postmodernism is differentiated from other cultural forms by its emphasis on fragmentation which replaces the alienation of the subject that characterized modernism.
		Also distinctive of the late capitalist age is postmodernism's focus on commodification and the recycling of old images and commodities.
	worldofartandleisure.com /arts/art_leisure/Postmodernism_and_Architecture.html (445 words)

	architecture
		The European architecture avant-garde in the '20s (in particular Le Corbusier) dreamt of mass-produced houses which would recycle the techniques and materials developed during WWI, but it was in the US that architecture really became was a by-product of the military-industrial complex, during the second half of the 20th Century.
		The postmodern city made of signs and infrastructures that Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown have described in the '70s in their book Learnings from Las Vegas, have been progressively "enhanced" by new layers: more signs, spaces and objects, arrival of new technologies, increasing mediation of our relationship to space, intensification of transport.
		Architecture is a bit different, it has now a long history of collaboration with engineers: since the modern period and the industrial revolution, it's teaching has left the art schools and integrated the Universities nearly everywhere.
	www.we-make-money-not-art.com /archives/cat_architecture.php (7231 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Modern and Postmodern Architecture: Overview
		public was slow to respond to the intellectual arguments defending a modern architecture they found abrasive, boring, kitschy, or brutal, and if unsuccessful urban renewal projects encouraged a rejection of design styles linked to that modernism, then a late 1960s to early 1970s "postmodern" reaction ensued, led by a younger generation of architects.
		But postmodernism also brought a more general concern for context, or a willingness to reference place and culture and region, as well as a renewed interest in ornament.
		Postmodernism encouraged a more eloquent, meaningful, and sometimes witty architecture, and it created a fertile soil from which New Urbanist ideas could later thrive.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2593 (2024 words)

	Postmodern architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Postmodernity or postmodern architecture is a period whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, which runs through the present.
		Postmodernity in architecture is generally thought to be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism.
		Classic examples of modern architecture are the Lever House and the Seagram Building in commercial space, and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright or the Bauhaus movement in private or communal spaces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmodern_architecture (401 words)

	Postmodern literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both modern and postmodern literature represent a break from 19th century realism, in which a story was told from an objective or omniscient point of view.
		Unlike postmodern literature, however, modernist literature saw fragmentation and extreme subjectivity as an existential crisis or a Freudian internal conflict.
		The postmodern position is that the style of a novel must be appropriate to what it depicts and represents, and points back to such examples in previous ages as Gargantua by François Rabelais and the Odyssey of Homer, which Nancy Felson-Rubin hails as the exemplar of the polytropic audience and its engagement with a work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmodern_literature (823 words)

	Yale School of Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Architecture's relationship to the wider world it serves continually evolves but always there is at its core an unchanging belief that the act of building is in and of itself a great and ennobling undertaking.
		Architecture is a collaborative art, embracing local community groups, as in the affordable house that is our annual First Year Building Project, and environmentalism represented by our on-going collaboration in design and research with the School of Forestry and Environmental Design.
		Architecture is construction, context and so much more: for those who chose to be architects, it is a culture, a commitment and a life long path to discovery.
	www.architecture.yale.edu /degree_programs/deans_letter.htm (832 words)

	lucretia's aunt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Postmodern architectural thought is, in general, interested in the way in which modernist architecture attempted to communicate with its users, to speak an honest, unadorned language, to reveal the essence of language, and thus to transform their sensibilities.
		Instead, postmodern architecture must be credited for working with an understanding of the incredible complexity of communication, its indeterminacy, its refusal to be stable, the irreducible heterogeneity intrinsic to the way in which forms are received.
		Postmodern architecture is thus attempting nothing more than a "[u]nion with the real," and this "regardless of how the real is understood--holds out the promise of overcoming alienation and achieving reconciliation"(Taylor, 223).
	projects.vassar.edu /~lucretia/Olson.html (3923 words)

	Postmodernism - Psychology Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Postmodernism is often used in a larger sense, meaning the entire trend of thought in the late 20th century, and the social and philosophical realities of that period.
		Postmodern style is often characterized by eclecticism, digression, collage, pastiche, irony, the return of ornament and historical reference, and the appropriation of popular media.
		Postmodern philosophy is a radical criticism of Western philosophy, because it rejects the universalizing tendencies of philosophy.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Postmodernism (5878 words)

	Artikel arsitektur Modern dan Postmodern
		Postmodernism is often used in a larger sense, meaning the entire trend of thought in the late 20th century, and the social and philosophical realities of that period.
		Since, in postmodern thought, the "text" is a series of "markings" whose meaning is imputed by the reader, and not by the author, this play is the means by which the reader constructs or interprets the text, and the means by which the author gains a presence in the reader's mind.
		Postmodern philosophers are often regarded as difficult to read, and the critical theory that has sprung up in the wake of postmodernism has often been ridiculed for its stilted syntax and attempts to combine polemical tone and a vast array of new coinages.
	www.astudio.id.or.id /artkhus6modernpostmodern.htm (14764 words)

	Guilford Chapter Excerpt
		The intense self-reflexivity of postmodern literature thus leads to a constant interruption of narrative, an untiring reminder to the reader that he or she is reading a text, language, a fiction, and not viewing a world without mediation.
		The postmodern architectural spectacle is thus that of a global, postindustrial culture of consumerism, media culture, and the aestheticization of everyday life.
		Postmodernism is trying to get over the elitism not by dropping it, but rather by extending [through double coding] the language of architecture in many different ways-into the vernacular, towards tradition and the commercial slang of the street.
	www.guilford.com /excerpts/best3EX.html (17624 words)

	Postmodern architecture and design (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Postmodernism in architecture is generally thought to be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism.
		A transitional example of postmodern architecture is the ATT building in New York, which, like modernist architecture, is a skyscraper relying on steel beams and with lots of windows, but, unlike modern architecture, it borrows elements from classical Greek style as well.
		Postmodern architecture has also been described as "neo-eclectic", where reference and ornament have returned to the facade, replacing the aggressively unornamented modern styles as, for example, in this building from Boston Massachusetts (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~twp/architecture/postmoderncom/bldg4.JPG).
	www.jahsonic.com /PostmodernArchitecture.html (945 words)

	Postmodernism
		Postmodernism is preference, and truth is a social construct to be eliminated.
		Modern Architecture as established and developed by masters such as Walter Gropius and Philip Johnson was focused on the pursuit of an ideal perfection, harmony of form and function[13] and dismissal of frivolous ornament[14].
		Postmodernism is said to have originated in the 1960s among artists and critics in New York and was taken up by European theorists in the 1970s.
	www.lycos.com /info/postmodernism--term.html (719 words)

	AllRefer.com - postmodernism (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
		The term postmodernism is probably most specific and meaningful when used in relation to architecture, where it designates an international architectural movement that emerged in the 1960s, became prominent in the late 1970s and 80s, and remained a dominant force in the 1990s.
		Postmodern architecture is characterized by the incorporation of historical details in a hybrid rather than a pure style, by the use of decorative elements, by a more personal and exaggerated style, and by references to popular modes of building.
		Practitioners of postmodern architecture have tended to reemphasize elements of metaphor, symbol, and content in their credos and their work.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/postmoder.html (450 words)

	Architecture
		Although postmodernism is not a cohesive movement based on a distinct set of principles, as was modernism, in general it can be said that the postmodernists value individuality, intimacy, complexity, and occasionally even humor.
		Postmodern tendencies were given early expression in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966; revised ed.
		Other postmodern office towers built during the 1980s aspired to a similar high stylistic profile, recalling the great Art Deco skyscrapers of the 1920s and ‘30s or striving for an eccentric flamboyance of their own.
	cs.clark.edu /~hum101/Humanities_101/architecture.htm (1776 words)

	Alt.Postmodern FAQ FAQ
		Postmodernism, on the contrary, is committed to modes of thinking and representation which emphasize fragmentations, discontinuities and incommensurable aspects of a given object, from intellectual systems to architecture.
		The postmodern challenge constitutes not only a diverse body of cultural criticism, it must also be seen as a contextual discourse that has challenged specific disciplinary boundaries in such fields as literary studies, geography, educa- tion, architecture, feminism, performance art, anthropology, sociology, and many other areas.
		A postmodern artist or writer is in the position of a philosopher: the text he writes, the work he produces are not in principle governed by preestablished rules, and they cannot be judged according to a determining judgment, by applying familiar categories to the text or to the work.
	www.non.com /news.answers/postmodern-faq.html (7157 words)

	Essential World Architecture Images- Postmodern architecture
		Postmodern architecture is an international style whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, and which continues to influence present-day architecture.
		Postmodernity in architecture is generally thought to be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism.
		Postmodernity or postmodern architecture is a period whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950's, which runs through the present.
	www.essential-architecture.com /STYLE/STY-M12.htm (2710 words)

	Postmodernism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism.
		Postmodernism can also be used as a pejorative term to attack changes in society seen as undesirable as they relate to questioning of absolute value systems and other forms of foundationalism.
		Postmodernism called for a disruption of the dominance of high culture by popular culture; mixing of popular and high cultures, new valuation of pop culture, hybrid cultural forms cancel "high"/"low" categories.
	www.jahsonic.com /PostModernism.html (2121 words)

	Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments
		Postmodernism is an idea that has been extremely controversial and difficult to define among scholars, intellectuals, and historians, as it connotes to many the hotly debated idea that the modern historical period has passed.
		Postmodernism adherents often argue that their ideals have arisen as a result of particular economic and social conditions, including what is described as "late capitalism" and the omnipresence of broadcast media, and such conditions have pushed society into a new historical period.
		The criticisms of postmodernism are often complicated by the still fluid nature of the term, and in many cases the criticisms are clearly directed at poststructuralism and the philosophical and academic movements that it has spawned rather than the broader term postmodernism.
	www.countryiworld.com /wiki-Postmodernism (4816 words)

	ArtandCulture Movement: Postmodern Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Architectural Postmodernism, perhaps one of the most vague and deliberately elusive concepts in recent architectural practice, has come to stand as a full-scale condemnation of the Modern movement.
		Assuming that architecture must espouse a populist position, the figureheads of Postmodern architecture -- including Michael Graves and Robert Stern -- embraced a language of cultural fragments and allusions.
		Postmodern architecture reveled in divorcing historical forms from their contexts.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?wosid=NO&id=131 (479 words)

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