Sunday, February 17, 2013

Modernism Vs. Postmodernism


                At first, we studied about Modernism, the style which focused on simplicity and function of buildings which is quite hard for people to see nowadays. For me I think that the real reason that makes Modern style become less popular that before is due to the fact that it is too spiritless, even the style can serve all the functions but it is still lack of a very important element. The part that create all the unique feelings and separate the one building from others, the part that serve as the "identity" for the building.

                Later on, there was a creation of "Postmodernism", the style which developed from Modernism but instead of just designing simple structures, Postmodernism also introduced the new style by combining the previous one and ornaments together. The new style introduced the buildings with the help of 
ornamentation, which is really different from the previous one because Modernism consider ornaments as unnecessary elements and avoid using it. In my opinion, I really like the new style, it creates unique identity to each building. The new additional part helps the building to express the feelings which is a new thing that Modernism do not have, "Uniqueness".

                Not just new feelings but ornamentation also means new ideas and creations. It helps in creation new designs that literary outside of the box, from a simple glass box to difference forms such as triangles and curves. The best example would be the TWA terminal, which has a stunning designs that not just only beautiful but meaningful as well. the building use a bird as an inspiration and thanks to the ornamentation, the TWA terminal can really express itself.           
                                    
                It is quite an impressive development from Modernism to Postmodernism, we can see that Postmodernism did not replaced the concept of Modernism, the new style actually using the modern concept as one of the main components, but adding ornaments in order to improves the old concept by giving the ability to express itself to it. We can see that Postmodernism is not so different from Modernism, for me Postmodernism is like an upgrade version of modernism, a new version that not only functional but also meaningful. 

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