COP 1 Lecture 12 - Postmodernism

- Opposite of modernism = new isn't better 

- Le Corbusier - 'a machine for living in' 

- Post Modernism recycles ideas from the past and questions if there is anything 'new' to make


- Characteristics - exhaustion, pluralism, pessimism, disillusionment

- Modernism = expressed new technologies 


- 1960 Jean Tingualy 'Homage to New York'

- 1960 - began
- 1970 - established as a term
- 1980 - recognisable style
- 1980/90 -dominant theoretical discourse, taught in art schools
- Today - tired
- Now described as being 'late modernity'

- Charles Jenks - modernism died on the 15th July 1972 at 3.32 pm after demolition of the Pruitt

- Post Modernism questioned conventions -  there are no rules.

- Sheffield Park Hill Flats -  regenerated by Urban Splash - undesirable and run down to desired by young professionals


- Leeds look of architecture - tried to be revolutionary in the post modern era - combination of red brick and sandstone was very iconic at the time.

- Quinlan Terry - an architect who designs buildings in a classic style

- NYC - modernist
- VEGAS - post modernist, anything goes, very random

- Blade Runner - stereotypical post modern city.

- Ultimate figure - Andy Warhol - exact opposite of modernism