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Modern Architecture: Key Concepts and Theories

The document outlines key concepts and themes from a course on the History and Theory of Architecture, covering various lectures that discuss modernism, postmodernism, and architectural aesthetics. It highlights ideas such as pluralism, contextualism, and the impact of mass production on architecture, as well as the evolution of architectural language and identity. The course also addresses the implications of cultural and historical references in architectural design.

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Modern Architecture: Key Concepts and Theories

The document outlines key concepts and themes from a course on the History and Theory of Architecture, covering various lectures that discuss modernism, postmodernism, and architectural aesthetics. It highlights ideas such as pluralism, contextualism, and the impact of mass production on architecture, as well as the evolution of architectural language and identity. The course also addresses the implications of cultural and historical references in architectural design.

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Course keywords:

Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 2 - Lecture 2 Lecture3 Lecture3


continues Reading continues
Historical abstraction. Sense of place Juxtaposition neologism univalent metaphor
precedent/reference
Modern New aesthetics The Death of Modern Defensible spaces Spatial expression architectural sign Multivalence signification
Architecture
Rejection of ornaments Streets in the air Zeitgeist Modern Vernacular Codes of perception literalism

Rejection of symmetry Univalent form metaphor Tropical Modernism plurality Suggested metaphors

Opportunities of new rational substitutes for rejection of rhetoric and a evolutionary process Dependent on local elitist and popular
materials traditional patterns theory of communication. codes meanings

Industrial design motifs double-coding Neo-vernacular elastic Over coded


Form ever follows function Erstaz Architecture (by semantic confusion rudimentary Convincing associations ambiguity
Charles Jencks)
International Modernism Alienation place identity Eclectic inclinations organic metaphor unconscious level

Prescription for a proven formula tailors to society Architectural authenticity exuberant Possible interpretations
progressive design
No visual reference to the qualitative thinking Ccorporate unified image Embellishment -free decorated shed Enigmatic over-coding
neighbours based on quantitative forms
analysis
The Prairie style clichés Post-Modern critique Purity of form Obscurantism enigmatic signifier

Avant-garde absentee developers Aestheticize the Honesty of expression. balanced theory of pluralist culture.
experience of architecture signification.

Mass production Machine Evolution of the Modern visual dominance of the oversimplification malleable
aesthetics/production Architecture boundary wall.
Modernist planning Aberrant readings. Memorable visual evasive codes of the locale.
language and presence
Mainstream Multivalent form enigmatic ‘metaphor of function’
Cities losing their identity Basing the analogy evocative. ‘economies’ a ‘rent slabs’

• History and Theory of Architecture D4101 Dr. [Link], PhD, [Link], BSc.
Course keywords:
Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 4 Lecture 4 Lecture 4 Lecture 5
continues continues continues Reading

emerged. doubly coded pluralism formal superiority anarchic universalization

architectural elite Enlightenment instrumental pastiche amorphous erosion


words. rationalism
symbolic signs credible eclectic aesthetic Cardboard scenography self-indulgent phenomenon

insincere. impoverishment contextualism arbitrarily Horizontally Universal Civilization


structured
universal language naive optimism incremental approach Postmodernism of "Avant Garde” national spirit
reaction
cross-cultural functionalism of the Radical Eclecticism Postmodernism of heterogeneity cultural re-vendification
usage aesthetics of the resistance
machine

romantic Participatory "pastiche” dormant civilization


individualism architecture
"defensible" space Critical Regionalism reactionary Polarized

alienating housing collaged onto the modern sensibility compensatory façade


estate traditional
background
transcendence truth to materials Free-Style Classicism symbiotic instruments

revivalists tangible reality the Machine Aesthetic Megalopolitan development


hybrid language symbolic intentions Rational Architects burolandschaft city

irony morality rapacity of development


parody social and locally inflected culture
metaphysical reality

eclecticism dialectical superficial masking


realism symbolism Emergence

• History and Theory of Architecture D4101 Dr. [Link], PhD, [Link], BSc.
Course keywords:
Lecture 5
continues

nostalgic historicism

peculiarities

critical self
consciousness
tectonic

lost vernacular

cross-cultural references

Megalopolis

supercity

universal placelessness

allocation of land use

Tabula-rasa
antagonist

indicative domination
tactile resilience
ligaments

• History and Theory of Architecture D4101 Dr. [Link], PhD, [Link], BSc.

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