Post Class-Emergent Rules

  It was really nice to go through some pictures of post modern architecture in class on Wednesday. Seeing examples of the Emergent Rules helped to really dig deeper into structuralism. 

  I took an architecture class in high school and I remember learning that, "Form follows function" which is much different than post-modernism. The idea of designing an a building based on aesthetics intrigues me, rather than designing it based on function and then designing the structure around it. 

  I do understand that even though appearances are quite shallow many times the appearance takes precedence over the function. This is the case in almost all segments of life, in my opinion. From writing, to dating, to building a house--no matter how functional something may be--the outward appearance plays a huge role in even giving yourself a chance to examine the innards.

  What I like about post-modernism is that with the attention paid to aesthetics these buildings and/or writing become much more creative and artistic. With the mixture of new cutting edge design of new rhetorical figures and the nods to history in anamnesis it is a wide range of flavor, taste and style that challenging the mind and conventionality.