{"id":10631,"date":"2014-05-08T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10631"},"modified":"2014-05-08T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T10:55:00","slug":"modernism-postmodernism-post-postmodernism-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/modernism-postmodernism-post-postmodernism-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernism, Postmodernism, Post-postmodernism and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"775\" height=\"460\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LDKakGDbjpw?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"775\" height=\"460\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LDKakGDbjpw?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nModernism, said Charles Jencks, died with the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in Chicago.<br \/>\nPost-modernism appears to be dying with the demolition of Marco Polo House in London (see video).<br \/>\nPost-postmodern (Post-POMO) design may arrive when designers recover the confidence to blend reason with beliefs eg in Vitruvius&#8217; design objectives: design should be functional, multi-objective, sustainable and meaningful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was something really good about modernism, because design should be functional.<\/li>\n<li>And there was something really good about postmodernism, because design should be multi-valent.<\/li>\n<li>But something will always be missing if design is based on reason alone: for <em>Commodity<\/em>, <em>Firmness<\/em> and <em>Delight<\/em>, designers must also hold beliefs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PS of these three words, the most problematic is &#8216;Delight&#8217;. It suggests the type of pleasure you get from a pudding, like Raspberry Delight, rather than the more serious objectives which have led the development of the arts from century to century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modernism, said Charles Jencks, died with the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in Chicago. Post-modernism appears to be dying with the demolition of Marco Polo House in London (see video). Post-postmodern (Post-POMO) design may arrive when designers recover the confidence to blend reason with beliefs eg in Vitruvius&#8217; design objectives: design should be functional, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}