| Description |
136 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Series |
Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 91, no. 01. 0003-8504
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Profile (Chichester, England) ; no. 269
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| Contents |
What is multiform? / Owen Hopkins -- Aiming for personality, an exercise of continuous improvisation / Lera Samovich -- PoMo, collage and citation, notes towards an etiology of chunkiness / Mario Carpo -- Nothing new, referencing, remixing and sampling / Graham Burn, James Crawford and Alexander Turner -- Marni sweaters and rugby shirts, colour blocking in architecture / Jennifer Bonner -- More with less, responding to austerity / Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen -- The birth and rebirth of a movement, Charles Jencks's postmodern odyssey in AD / Stephen Parnell -- Pluralism and the urban landscape, towards a strategic eclecticism / Dirk Somers -- #Architecturez, Rackz, Shackz and the opportunities in between / Mat Barnes -- Exploring, building, completing, context and craft / Amin Taha -- Screen's domesticity, from the postmodern house to our house / Léa-Catherine Szacka -- Taking joy seriously, an interview with artist and designer Camille Walala / Owen Hopkins -- Perceiving postmodernism, learning from London's marshlands / David Kohn -- Working in public, political and design inheritances in the work of DK-CM / David Knight and Cristina Monteiro -- The joy of architecture, evoking emotions through building / Geoff Shearcroft -- Remembering in colour, in conversation with artist/designer Yinka Ilori / Erin McKellar -- Iconic iconoclasm, David Connor / Neil Spiller |
| Summary |
Our current moment is one of profound political, ecomonic and environmental change. Historically, these moments of transition have seen a parallel period of cultural, and notably architectural-flux. In the late 1970s this was manifested as Postmodernism. Today, a number of architects are looking again at this movement and redeploying a range of its tactics and approaches using contemporary methods and techniques. These include different modes of collage, formal reference and quotation, stylistic eclectism, symbolism in form, material and ornament, and the bold, expressive use of colour, both natural and synthetic. While the design that results from these 'multiform' tactics and approaches has been seen as a kind of neo-Postmodernism, this issue argues that this is a simplistic and superficial reading. Instead, it posits this phenomenon as the architectural attempt, both conscious and unconscious, to reflect, grapple with and make sense of the present age of transition, which has been accelerated by the global pandemic. Rather than responding to this situation by attempting to marshal architecture around a single unifying narrative, this issue makes the case for transformative possibilities offered by an approach that is ad hoc, eclectic and pluralist |
| Notes |
"January/February 2021." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- 21st century
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Architecture, Postmodern
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Architecture -- Philosophy
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| Author |
Hopkins, Owen, 1984- editor, contributor
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McKellar, Erin, editor, contributor
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Carpo, Mario, contributor
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Bonner, Jennifer, contributor
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Parnell, Stephen, 1971- contributor
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Somers, Dirk, contributor
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Szacka, Léa-Catherine, contributor
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Spiller, Neil, contributor
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| ISBN |
9781119717669 |
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1119717663 |
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