Postmodernisme (architecture)

En écho à l'article du Nouvel Obs sur le Brutalisme* (Architecture : le brutalisme des années 60 fait son grand retour), voici un article qui envisage (non sans humour et avec un certain talent) le point de vue inverse, de l'épuisement de cette mode au profit d'un retour au Postmodernisme :

8 Reasons You Will Also Like Postmodern Architecture In 2016
Author : René Boer
Summary : Make sure not to lag behind with those old-fashioned Brutalism-lovers!
Date : 22 December 2015

If you are reading this, you probably already have a certain interest in architecture, but chances are that you never warmed up to those kinds of buildings from the late 70s, 80s and early 90s, generally classified as ‘Postmodern’. The architecture of these buildings is often based on a loose set of ideas that gained importance when Modernist architecture failed to reinvent itself in the 70s. Their designs often show a preference for fragmentation, provocation, irony and distorted references to historical styles. According to Sam Jacob, Postmodern architecture can also be ‘mean, sarcastic, blank, difficult, challenging, yet somehow simultaneously psychedelically positive’. And finally, its individualistic tendencies are often associated with the neoliberal, corporate turn in spatial production during the 80s.

In short, it is often difficult to like. But soon you will, for the following reasons.

1) It offers a unique chance to like something everybody else loathes.

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2) The obsession with Modernist – and now even with Brutalist – eye candy is over.

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3) The internet needs a new pornographic aesthetic.

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4) Postmodern buildings are getting old.

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5) Apartments in Postmodern buildings often come cheap.

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6) Postmodern architecture is rapidly disappearing.

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7) The rest of the world likes it.

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8) The renewed interest in Postmodern architecture is suddenly picking up.

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http://www.failedarchitecture.com/8-rea … e-in-2016/



cf. http://www.pss-archi.eu/forum/viewtopic … 27#p581327

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