Postmodern architecture abroad (pdf)

Postmodern architecture abroad

The abstract of Foreign Postmodern Architecture

The book was published by Jiangsu art publisher in April, 2000 and was made a second edition in 2001; in 2008 it was revised by the Chongqing publishing house. It was then the only European artist theory work that discussed the theory to the representative works comprehensively and systematically. After the publish it has big influence and become the set books both at home and Taiwan university. This book was revised by Chongqing publishing house. The publishing of this book has turned me into a export in postmodern architecture theory inland. And later I taught ‘foreign postmodern architecture’ in many universities.

The book begins with postmodern relative theory, and analyzes the gameplay technique in postmodern architecture, the poetic language of architecture, and the irrational features. To interpret the postmodern architecture thoroughly from the aspects of the art philosophy, deconstruction technique, humanity, image etc. it introduced the representative works of foreign postmodern architecture through making comparison between classical modern architectures. This book adopted three reading sequences –character event, architecture work and theory literature. besides the historical evolution procession used the atlas method, it also introduced the modernism, neo-classicism, high technology, neo-rationalism, deconstruction and constructivism, ect., which are relative to the postmodern architecture style school systematically; analyzed the representatives during the postmodern ages, for example Philip Johnson, Bernard, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi, Zaha Hadid etc. and also the book handpicked the classical document of postmodern theory masters and famous scholars, interpreting the postmodern thought and spirit through different levels and angles. The whole package of this book is abundant in materials; ideas are concise and funny; the visual angles are unique, and also it emphasized on the readability. It is the encyclopedia book introducing the postmodern architecture art centralized and systematically in domestic. The book has selected large numbers of pictures, giving the readers a well arranged reading space with excellent pictures and its accompanying essays.

This book is the first comprehensive monograph introducing and studying foreign postmodern architecture, which was quoted by quite many domains’ writers, and also made me a famous architecture scholar in China. This book must be read by the department of architecture in China.

Contents

1 summary of the postmodern architecture;

1), postmodern architecture of gameplay;

2) space and place   

2 building poetics;

1) the irrational of architecture;

2) postmodern architecture and the art philosophy 

3) the metaphor of the postmodern architecture

3 architecture is an art

1) construct as narrating

2) architecture is the symbol of human

4 the image mythology of postmodern architecture  2) the appreciation the several postmodern architecture works; the ending words

The summary of postmodern architecture 1) the game play of postmodern architecture

After the postmodern architecture there’s a trend of requirement that coming out from the modernism as well as even the enlightenment original western rations, and looking for the original feeling of life, using the supreme logical and abhorrent reasons to take place of the modern inhuman logic. Because of the First and Second World War, suspecting the western sense and the shackles of science became the way of thinking, but in order to make the theory reliable, they would like to habitually use some very theoretical, scientific, rational, and logic terms to express their own transcendent body feelings, such as the postmodern theorist Jacques Derrida, Iacan, Paul de Man ect,. Jean Francois Lyotard call this condition postmodern condition. This is a changing ‘culture plight’, a searching and striving for legalized rule of game, even a tool for politics, an ideology, a misconstruction by the scientist. So postmodern is the knowledge in information society. Postmodern approximately begins in late of the 1950s and first of 1960s, and it is the inevitable outcome of information society and information supremacy. In a sense, postmodernism rebut the modernism, as well as the changes made by the information society and the new technology revolution. The character of game has transcendent and accidental characters, this is the rebut of modernism and theoretical logic, and cannot be measurable, random, destiny. And it becomes the heuristic method of creativity power. This kind of rebellion and heuristic method of creativity power can be found at the provided architecture form of this book. In order to distinguish each other, we offer the comparison between classical modern works and postmodern works. Modernism comes from the first, second and the third industrial revolution, the middle class machines industry, using the big, tall, huge steel, glass, machines, concrete as medium: however, postmodernism comes after ‘the third wave’, the fourth industrial revolution, information revolution, science and technology society. The culture of image and the material media, mass media has indicate a deep crisis of culture. This can be directly found in architecture images, especially in the works of Libeskind, Tschumi, Hadid. The sense, logic and concentrate of modernism has been smashed into pieces, and logic is replaced by the scattered feelings of body, spirit turned into flesh, rationalism finally evolved into ‘craziness’, and this rationalism crazy turns into the craziness of high-technology, such as all the kind of machines demonstrated in Rogers and Peano’s Centre Pompidou, and it also achieved the prediction of Le Corbusier. Architecture is the living machine, the extremely explanation of this theory is the tank; plane warship and carrier in the two world wars are all movable ‘architectures’. Architectural history becomes a Utopia to replace another architect’s personal center and selfish spirit, and it is the symptom of image history. Postmodernism appears when the first generation of great modern master Walter Gropius and Bauhaus’s design of school box style becomes the main position of the world architecture design. Its huge inhuman scale, steel, glass, concrete, elevators have all created indifferent and inhuman space making the sense of human alienation. Like the systemized, without national characters, locality or even historic works—towering between the skyscrapers of New York and Manhattan.