The Development of the Postmodern Movement (jan 1, 1960 – jan 1, 2000)

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(Image: Sydney Opera House)
Postmodernism was a style of architecture popular between the 1960s to 2000. This style of architecture was conceived in Italy when the Italian architect Robert Venturi published ‘Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture’, which heavily criticized the modernist movement as being too uniform, bleak, and didn’t have any cultural significance at all. Another major fault mentioned in the book was that the building methods and the materials used in modernism didn’t create very stable structures, an example of this being the Ronan point, which collapsed in 1968. Postmodernism was the response to modernism and aimed to be the antithesis of modernism, by attempting to incorporate stylistic features that were often fun and symbolic, by applying elements of shape colour, and also some components of non-architectural forms to create new and exciting buildings. A prominent example of this is the Sydney Opera house, which was influenced by the sails of ships. The influence of postmodernist architecture has spread worldwide and also has had many sub-divides which include deconstructivism, neo-classicism, and high-tech. The leading architects of this movement were Philip Johnson, Charles Moore, and most notably Frank Gehry.

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