Question

Choose one example of architecture that you believe exemplifies the characteristic post-modern style,using the class text’s description of post-modern features to make your case. Describe two features of post-modern style that you find intriguing.

Answer 1

Answer.

Postmodernism in architecture led to the development of an architectural style away from the universalist and perfectionist view of Modernism to an architectural form which favored local and individual expressions of place-making. Another typical characteristic of postmodern buildings is the lurid neon lights, the mixed use of metal and concrete in angular shapes against the simplicity of the natural background, excessive signage and two-dimensional quality of the buildings which present an appropriate design response to the context.

To this end, Frank Gehry‘s Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao, Spain, 1997, is one of the most well-known living postmodernist architecture with its unusual fabricated shapes that defy the rational of Modernist claims to perfection in nature in a new way, and instead inscribes an experience of balance and calmness in the deforming the skin of the building with non-rectilinear metallic forms.