LANGUAGE OF POST-MODERN ARCHITECTURE - CHARLES JENCKS

PRESENTER: MANSI SHAH3303

CHAPTER : LANGUAGE OF POST MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Charles jencks very well traces the problem of modern architecture which gave rise to post-modern architecture. He starts with modern architecture and relates the situation. . He sees the main problem to be one of communication. All building mean something, indeed building carries a plurality of meanings which people read into them despite what architects intended. But because the architects have abandoned the traditional languages of architecture and tried to design functional buildings, modern architecture has become so poverty stricken Jencks call it univalent that this plurality of meanings simply cannot read into it. Most of us, indeed, have been brought up to think that such oversimple architecture is evidence of social responsibility and integrity on the part of architect.

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

Kiyonori kikutake: tokoen hotel....

Has used a version of the torii gate to acknowlegde the entrance, and traditinal bracket 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.

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.