ARCH 214bg Lecture 11: CRITICAL REGIONALISM ARCHITECTURE Lecture 11
Document Summary
Name suggest that it"s architecture after modernism, but this is wrong! Begins in 1945 post wwii period; has constructive side and modernist side. It was about science, technology, making a better day for tomorrow. At the time, un nations as a police action. This was the beginning of wicked problems, you cannot solve a wicked problem. They have advocates on both sides that seem perfectly reasonable. We use the term wicked in a meaning akin to malignant or vicious or tricky or aggressive to characterize social problems (horst rittel and melvin. Post modernism was a reaction against the ideological mantra before socialism. Architects that started this idea were tired of modernism being so mute: it didn"t touch people, or talk about peoples" dreams or hopes. Critical regionalism was the first pronged attack at modernism. Other issue is the rising power of media/advertising/image/branding. Villa savoye vs postmodern vanna venturi house, pennsylvania. Jean-francois lyotard"s the postmodern condition: a report on knowledge.
