LANGUAGE OF POST-MODERN ARCHITECTURE - CHARLES JENCKS

PRESENTER: MANSI SHAH3303

Charles jencks very well traces the problem of modern architecture which gaverise to post-modern architecture. He starts with modern architecture and relatesthe situation. . He sees the main problem to be one of communication. Allbuilding mean something, indeed building carries a plurality of meanings whichpeople read into them despite what architects intended. But because thearchitects have abandoned the traditional ‘languages’ of architecture and triedto design ‘functional’ buildings, modern architecture has become so povertystricken – Jencks call it univalent – that this plurality of meanings simply cannotread into it. Most of us, indeed, have been brought up to think that such over-simple architecture is evidence of social responsibility and integrity on the partof architect.

CHAPTER : LANGUAGE OF POST MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Ralph erskine, byker wall is an example of public participation in design, yet the result bears a strong resemblance to other .

Has used a version of the torii gate to acknowlegde the entrance, and traditinalbracket construction, but in concrete not wood, to articulate public areas. The hotel rooms mix tatami and modern architecture while roof is under a gentle curve.

Kiyonori kikutake: tokoen hotel....

The casa batllo by antoni gaudi:bones and lava at the base , death marks and undulating sea in the middle and dragon looking down sleepily at the top these metaphor articulates the different interior functions.. The meaning is more profound than the surface metaphor.

Marine Parade Community Building : dynamism, interaction, fusion and harmony.