History of Style - Research Folio

History of Style - Research Folio

Introduction

Postmodernism is more a state of mind and intellectual style. As the type of mentality, postmodernism is hyper reflexia, which arose in the religious and philosophical vacuum, discredit the ideological concepts of total relativism, overproduction of items of immediate consumption. As a creative setting postmodernism are a maximum of intellectual game, heuristic, reflective, and a destructive sense-at least, ethical, aesthetic, and constructive. Postmodernism is not a philosophy or history and it's not associated with an ideology, not looking for nor endorses any truths. Postmodernism is seen as a reaction to the modernist cult of the new, as well as an elite response to popular culture as a polycentric state of ethical-aesthetic paradigm. Postmodernism is also seen as a reaction to the total commercialization of culture, as the opposition of official culture.

Post-Modernism

Postmodernism has shaped the dynamics of human communication since its evolution during the 1960s. Also, referred to as cultural studies and post-structuralism, Postmodernism states that nothing in the world is real; there is no distinction between fact and fiction, whilst the truth holds no meanings. Postmodernism reflects different world views and perspectives through partial representation of reality, learning and knowledge, and values. It creates a fit between economic, aesthetic and theoretical grounds based on the responses against modernism. It negates the truth claims made under modernism, by identifying inconsistencies and flaws in these claims. For instance, the history of apartheid is considered by postmodernism as merely an account of competing tales and fictional narrations. Similarly, internet downloads allow users to listen to single music tracks without the need of buying the entire albums. This reflects a drastic transformation in the reality of listening from analogue to digital media. Technology does not require any structured practices of use from start to end. One can join a medium in the middle (vam.ac.uk).

Architecture

In the second half of the twentieth century, the pioneering spirit of modernism and the international style has exhausted itself. The urban environment has become uncomfortable due to the low-cost houses, buildings, designed in the spirit of pure rational functionalism, creating a feeling of sadness, monotony, and monotony. In the 70 years in the U.S. as a reaction to this, there were huge buildings, on a scale surpassing glass skyscrapers in the style of Mies van der Rohe. Their scale has nothing to do with the human body, and was more like a cosmic level. The smooth glass surface of the building had no floor is a horizontal division, identified on the outside as it was in the skyscrapers of Mies, and all of its "body" reflects the sky and the surrounding area, engaging with it in an irrational interaction. 

Postmodern architects have tried to make the architecture more and more laws, except for the functional relevance and maximum simplification of the basic forms - fiction, fantasy, theatrical game start, and complex shaped association. Another quality that distinguishes the architecture of postmodernism, especially in European countries - is a conscious desire to link the new ...