Post modernism

"Actual lie is the suggestion of truth."

The last two weeks we have been studying about high modernism and post-modernism. Personally I kind of like the idea of post-modernism more. Derived from a criticism of modern movement in architecture, it attacks the idea of how modernists believe in the definite forms and how they do not borrow anything from the past. Post-modernism somewhat presents a smarter thought. The fact that it has a more complex, open-ended meanings -which can be understood in many different ways -plus the assembling of the present, the past and the future united together. perhaps help to endure and lengthen its life on the fashion road. With this idea, it isn't in favour of one specific customer or one small group of people nor is it fixed in time and one interpretation. Since people's ways of understanding can change through time and according to their experiences, Post-modernism architecture then doesn't age with time. The creativity runs wider with the appearance of ornament and decoration, the play with pure forms and the obscure and uncertain meanings embedded behind it.

Michael Graves' work for example, it rejects the notion of the 'perfect' architectonic detail and play with all colors, methods, forms, materials available to architects. It does not have to be symmetrical which this gives interesting composition and shapes, making his buildings look unique and interesting than just following fixed forms.

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