Well this past weeks reading of "The Emergent Rules" was not the easiest to comprehend. Thankfully, the next day of class always seems to put everything I've read into a much more understandable context. A lot of what we covered dealt with architecture, which is a subject I've never put much thought into.
New York City, the big apple, where dreams come true, whatever it is you may call it, is home to numerous notable buildings and landmarks. From a young age I've made yearly trips to NYC, yet there's never been a time where I've stopped in my step to look up at the building surrounding me. It's as if my perspective is cut right at the top of every shop window. How do you miss something that's so well crafted and thought out when it's just within reach?
I liked this class, in regards to the classifications of architecture techniques. Now I feel as if I could walk down a city street and identify each style. One style in particular that I found intriguing was the idea of double coding. "Well before Robert Venturi and Matthias Ungers were formulating their poetics of dualism, a character in a Strindberg play exhorts: Don't say either… or but instead both…and!" (Jencks 288) The fact that a building can be interpreted in numerous ways is brilliant.
Professor Cummings said something about post modernism that seemed to really sum it up and that was "anything goes". The way to best set guidelines for post modernism is to realize there are no guidelines. After learning all of the rules to architecture and styles it becomes apparent that there is no such thing as a post modern architect staying within the box."
Lastly, there's the idea that time is lost with post modernism. In the future people will find buildings and it will be nearly difficult to categorize them into a certain time frame just through observation. It's as if our current state won't have its own distinct features in terms of architecture.
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