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Postmodernism Introduction

What is Postmodernism? V&A Museum YouTube video


Notes from Video:

  • Bewilderment

  • Architectural movement

  • 1977 punk was starting to happen

  • Photocopiers and Photoshop became a thing during this time

  • The modern world represents mass production and flaws

  • Everybody wants to compete in a capitalist society

  • Release from constraint

Why is Postmodern Architecture so bizarre? ARTiculations


Notes from the video:

  • Defined as a response to modernism

  • Defying traditional stereotypes and design

  • Architecture can acknowledge change and difference while accepting memory

  • Modern architecture likely took off all around the world during the 40s and 50s due to its efficiency in post-war construction efforts

  • Post-modernism reflection of the formal establishments can be appealing in the context of counterculture and protest movements between the 1960s and 1970s- appealed to political movements

  • Post-modernism is often a complex layering of multiple histories or a hybrid of numerous contextual counterparts

  • Attempting to connect past, present, and future- its look depends on context

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