Postmodernism and autonomy Discourse Report

The era of postmodernism architecture began during the early 1950s. However, it was fully recognized as a movement and an international style of architecture about two decades later.

Nonetheless, it is imperative to note that the slow growth of postmodernism style of architecture did not deter it from steady spread and adoption across the world. As a matter of fact, the contemporary architectural skills heavily borrowed from the ideals of postmodernism

When architectural ‘reference, ornament and wit’ returned, postmodernism was fast put into place and adopted across the world as a globally accepted system (Venturi, 1977). Architecture has a vivid display of postmodernism movement.

Besides, it came into being after modern architecture was perceived to have failed. The key personalities behind this movement were L. I Kahn and Robert Venturi. The latter shed a lot of light on architectural designs through his writings.

The architectural freedom through the autonomy of discourse was largely heralded by Aldo Rossi. The entire discourse began before the onset of 1950s when several articles had already been written by Rossi (Kaminer 2011, p.88).

It is vital to mention that the idea behind architectural autonomy was brought about by the desire for freedom. Most of the radical architectural groups and individuals such as Aldo Rossi fought for freedom in constructing buildings.

However, the entire pursuit for freedom was not merely embedded on architecture since several rights groups also emerged during this era demanding for liberty both socially and politically.

In order to present the autonomy discourse in architecture, both the audio-visual and print media were used to campaign for freedom.

References

Kaminer, T 2011, Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation: The reproduction of Post-Fordism in late-twentieth-century architecture, Routledge, Madison Avenue, New York.

Venturi, R 1977, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, MA: MIT Press, Cambridge.