"Postmodern Poetics," Jencks- Pre Class Post

In order to understand the text and the meaning behind it, I feel like a great deal of it is calling us to talk about our experiences and how we may find a way to relate to the piece. Living in London or that being my home time I guess we could say, this piece brings me back to a certain building that I have always been struck by on Embankment place offices across the Thames. There had always been an essence to this building that struck me, as it did not really fit in with the classic buildings in the area that we all were so used to. Although this building is something that could be displayed to “a wide and divergent audience-something necessary for a public art gallery” (283). In should a well known city with some many tourist and travellers, it does become a piece of art, to be viewed and interpreted by all and I feel like that is what makes it special.The post-modern office building designed was designed by architect Sir Terry Farrell and is now an established Thameside landmark that spans railway tracks of Charing Cross station. Jencks talks of this idea of Postmodern Classicism and how ideas are a hybrid combination of modernism and classicism. I would say that this is definitely the cause when you look across the Thames and see the PWC building. The idea of modernism is drastic to me when we are talking about architectural, but there is something about this example that allows it to fall in place.