POMO

What is post modernism a reaction to?

It is a reaction to Modernism. Modernism was created to ensure equality and to improve the living standards of all. However Modernism ended up favoring the rich. A movement in architecture which rejected the modernist, avant garde, passion for the new. Post Modernism is to create form for no other purpose than novelty. It is an exploration of possibilities.


Why is it undefinable?

It is a paradox.

It doesn't offer ant answers or truth.

It is a rejection of grand narratives.

*There are no absolutes*


Why do some people find Post Modernism problematic?

It doesn't think anything is good or bad.


What is a grand narrative?

Lyotard-Politics, Science, Religion.


Firstly, postmodernism was a movement in architecture that rejected the modernist, avant garde, passion for the new. Modernism is here understood in art and architecture as the project of rejecting tradition in favour of going "where no man has gone before" or better: to create forms for no other purpose than novelty. Modernism was an exploration of possibilities and a perpetual search for uniqueness and its cognate--individuality. Modernism's valorization of the new was rejected by architectural postmodernism in the 50's and 60's for conservative reasons. They wanted to maintain elements of modern utility while returning to the reassuring classical forms of the past. The result of this was an ironic brick-a-brack or collageapproach to construction that combines several traditional styles into one structure. As collage, meaning is found in combinations of already created patterns.