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Charles JencksPostmodern architecture is characterized by a "double coding": two or more styles which co-exist in contradiction and/or self-mockery. http://architecture.about.com/library/bl-postmodern.htm
Postmodern architectureSense of "anything goes": Forms filled with humor, irony, ambiguity, contradiction
Juxtaposition of styles: Blend of traditional, contemporary, and newly-invented forms
Exaggerated or abstract traditional detailinghttp://architecture.about.com/library/bl-postmodern.htm
Postmodern FeaturesClash of scalesPostmodern architecture often includes elements that are clearly out of scale with the rest of the building.
This is most obvious where the building borrows from other styles. The mixing of large and small classical orders, the distortion and exaggeration of motifs, can make a building seem dramatic and grand.
Architects also played with scale to introduce surprise and a sense of fun.
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Postmodern featuresThin façadesSome Postmodern buildings have thin fronts that are clearly distinct from the rest of the building.
In some cases the thinness is exaggerated as a visual joke. For example, the facade may dissolve into the windows at the side of the building.
On other buildings, the façades are treated as little more than billboards or stage backdrops. This allowed architects greater freedom of expression in the design of the building front.
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Postmodern FeaturesClassical referencesPostmodern buildings often used elements of classical architecture.
In most cases the use is decorative not structural. Nor is it 'correct'. Postmodern architects did not follow the strict principles of the classical style. For example, they deliberately combined and exaggerated columns, arches and rough masonry. They took elements from Greek temples and applied them to buildings that had entirely modern functions.
The effect is often quirky and playful.
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Robert VenturiIn favor of messy vitality in architectureBelieved in aesthetic ambiguity and visual tensionPostmodern vision: “both-and” rather than “either-or”
High-techExposed structureGlass Tension structures
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