The Emergent Rules by Charles Jencks talks about eleven significant canons in art and architecture. The architects the most commonly aimed canon to achieve is urbane urbanism. To achieve this in a design one must focus on having the "proper balance between essential elements instead of one set of dualities" (pg.285) He claims that there are balance in every aspect in our life, and architecture. He says that "sometimes it idealizes the security of this point of departure, with nostalgia and melancholy, but at the same time it may exult in a new-found freedom and sense of adventure. Post-modernism is in this sense schizophrenix about the past: equally as determined to retain and preserve aspects of the past as it is to go forward; excited about revival, yet wanting to escape the dead formulae of the past. Fundamentally it mizes the optimism of Renaissance revival with that of the Futurists but is pessimistic about finding any certain salvation point, be it technology, a classless society, a meritocracy or rational organisation of a world economy (i.e. any of the answers which have momentarily been offered in the last hendred years)." (pg.293) I think Jencks idea of postmodern classicism was very interesting, yet hard to understand. In my opinion, new ideas and movements always come from the old, and inspired by previous generation and built from what we already have.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-xvHBSpDjw
I like this video because it gives me some idea what kind of idea he has in architecture.
I like this video because it gives me some idea what kind of idea he has in architecture.
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