Usually modernism comes with industrialization. After industrialization, every goods needed to change simple for the undeveloped mechanical process. At that time mechanics couldn’t make ornaments like avant-garde period. Also, in the market, splendor ornaments became uselessly expensive. This change of society affects to philosophy and it requests architecture to change together. Living life became practical and it went to use of space in people’s living life. This homework in architecture was successful by Le Corbusier, Mies van der rohe etc.
Modern means something new and against the previous tradition or ancient period at first. However, sometimes modern became old language in architecture because people don’t need to worry about technology and architect made formed space which sometimes doesn’t need to have function. Purified function and system was the key point of primary modern architecture.
However, after the late 1980’s something was changed. People started criticizing ‘modern’ and they said this period become ‘postmodern’. Systemized space brought too much regulation and people thought creative and natural way of space was taken because of modernism. So between 1980’s-2000’s many architects thought modern is a kind of bad aspect from mechanical society.
Currently when I sometimes read another articles, some critics debated about contemporary culture. People still refuse to excessive ornament like modernist, but we also want to test the development of new technology from human friendly sides. It’s so hard to deny we totally refuse to use modern language currently. When we named some period from previous time, almost every paradigm should have changed like from avant-garde to modern. What I am so interested in is people criticize modernism but they still use modern language. Modern is used for regular but sometimes, for a good meaning, it is used for simple, clear and not distorted. And in this between concepts, current architecture time is in between post-modernity and second-modernity.
cindy
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cindy could be a little clearer in her first paragraphs -- 'modernism is usually presented as arriving with industrialization' to take a stab at sentence 1 -- but it's more than worth it for the last paragraph, which has some great questions to ask.
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