5. Arnfinn Bo-Rygg is a professor on
aesthetics in Oslo University and wrote
an essay What Modern Was: Art,
Progress, and the Avant –Garde as well
as others that were included in the book
Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of
the Modern in Architecture and the City
6. Modernism:
- Notion of the new, the future
- Start of history (a distinction between
the old and new)
- Separation from the old classical
trends
7. Charles Jencks designs landscapes and
sculpture and writes on cosmogenic art.
He is known for his books questioning
Modern architecture and defining its
successors – Late, New and Postmodern
architecture, and is the co-founder of
Maggie Cancer Caring Centers.
- www. Charlesjencks.com
8. In Aesthetics In Philosophy In Worldview
Simple Harmonies Monism Mechanical
Formal Flatness Materialism Heirarchical
Abstract/Ahistorical
Utopian Accidental Universe
Reductivist Existentialist/Alienated
Innocent/
Straightforward
9. Postmodernism
- Age of lost innocence
- Idea of Plenty
- Progress is irrelevant
- History is complex
23. PHILIPPINE POSTMODERNISM
- Pesimissm towards Modernism
- Return to contextuality as opposed to the
impersonality of Modern architecture
- The idea of the end of history as proven by the
fact that architects are taking references from
the past means that everything that can be
thought of has already done, therefore there
can never be new developments and original
works.
- Evokes a sense of nationalism
- Recognition of plurality and individuality instead
of the monotony of Modernism
25. Jim Jarmusch is an American
independent film director, screen writer,
actor, producer, and composer; and has
been a major proponent of independent
cinema since the 1980’s
26. “Nothing is original. Steal from
anywhere that resonates with
inspiration or fuels your imagination.”
- Jim Jarmusch
27. Judith Torres is currently the editor-in-
chief of BluPrint and Condo Living
magazines by Mega Publishing Group
28. “I’ve heard Jarmusch’s assertion echoed
by some designers, particularly when
talking about the state of architecture
and furniture design here in the
Philippines, and lamenting the Filipino’s
penchant – and talent – of copycatting”
- Judith Torres (Optimistic DNA, Editor’s Note – BluPrint Volume 4 2013)
37. LATE PHILIPPINE POSTMODERNISM
- Idea of plenty went wild
- Architecture is dictated by corporation and
commodities
- Aping of western architecture
- Production of poor copies of “modernism” (A
pseudo-modern phenomenon)
- End of history
MEDIOCRITY
PASTICHE
STAGNANCY
38. Problem Identification:
Due to the effects of the Postmodern cultural trend, the
architecture of the Philippines has stopped its growth and
development, as it has failed to give any deepening
understanding of architectural aesthetics, but rather, a much
more chaotic architectural landscape for the country.
39.
40.
41. “In the evolution of any
discipline, it may be useful
to see the development of
institutions or other trends
that support it.”
-Michael D. Kanidah on Contemporary History
(http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/contemporary_history.html)
42. Thesis Statement:
The contemporary society can no longer be defined by
Postmodernism, due to the fact that it is no longer the
dominant ideology, therefore there must be a new set of
architectural aesthetic sensibilities that will reflect this new
structure of feeling of the contemporary generation. This new
ideology is called Metamodernism
43. Timotheus Vermeulen is a teaching fellow in Cultural Studies and
Theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is also
currently in the process of completing his AHRC-funded PhD in Film and
Television at the University of Reading, UK. He has published on inter-
and transmediality, spatiality, contemporary aesthetics, cinema and
television, and the work of Jacques Rancie`re.
– Notes on Metamodernism
Robin van den Akker is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at
the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and a researcher at TNO
Information and Communication Technologies. He is writing a dissertation on the
remediation of urban space by mobile media practices. He has published on
everyday life and urban space, digital culture and contemporary design, and the
work of Henri Lefebvre.
– Notes on Metamodernism
44. Timotheus and Robin are also currently working on an international
research project documenting trends and tendencies in current affairs
and contemporary aesthetics that can no longer be explained in terms of
the postmodern but should be conceived of as metamodern. As part of
this project they also co-edit a blog called ‘‘Notes on metamodernism’’
(http://mtmdrn.blogs
pot.com).
45. “The word ‘metaxy’ is a
Greek preposition,
meaning ‘between’.”
- James M. Rhodes
(http://www.lsu.edu/artsci/groups/voegelin/society/2003%20Papers/Rhodes.shtml)
46. “The word ‘metaxy’ is a
Greek preposition,
meaning ‘between’.”
- James M. Rhodes
(http://www.lsu.edu/artsci/groups/voegelin/society/2003%20Papers/Rhodes.shtml)
50. “An incredible irony of this book is that
the post-modernism it describes was
started in the early 1970’s, […] and it
comes to an end after his (Minorou
Yamasaki) twin towers were blown up
by terrorists.”
- Charles Jencks (2011), The Post-Modern Reader. p. 175, The Language of Post-
Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West
Sussex, United Kingdom.
55. METAMODERN STRUCTURE OF FEELING
- GENERATIONAL ATTEMPT AT RECONSTRUCTION
- RETURN OF SOCIAL & POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
- RISE OF A NEW SINCERITY/SERIOUSNESS
- IDEA OF CRAFTSMANSHIP
- IDEA OF EFFECT AND CARING
TIMOTHEUS VERMEULEN & ROBIN VAN DEN AKKER
A NEW DAWN
57. “By way of analogy, the
theistically oriented or
performatist architect
"plays God" by creates a
frame (a building) in which
he or she then radically
intervenes..”
- Raoul Eshelman
(http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/archive/322-performatism-or-whatcomes-after-
postmodernism-new-architecture-inberlin)
60. Romanticize –
To think about or describe
something as being better
or more attractive or
interesting than it really is
- Merriam-Webster
Dictionary
65. METARATIONALISM
- Going beyond the perceived “rational”
- No meaningful distinction between luxury
and necessity
TRAITS
- Starts off with a rational/familiar form
- Investigating patterns, perforations, and
pixelations
- Fractal, folding, warping
- Overlays, cuts, voids, and subtractions to be
able to break up the rationality of the original
form.
72. “Change is the law of life. And those
who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.”
- John F. Kennedy
(Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt.
June 25, 1963)
73. “It is not the strongest or the
most intelligent who will
survive but those who can
best manage change.”
- Charles Darwin (1809)
125. OVER – SIMPLICITY
OPPOSES
OF LATE POSTMODERN
PHILIPPINE
ARCHITECTURE
S I M P L E X I T YSIMPLE ARCHITECTURE
DELIVERING COMPLEX
MEANINGS.
CLARITY AND
RICHNESS
ABSTRACTED FORMS THAT ARE
STILL FAMILIAR, YET IT ISN’T.
RECONSTRUCTION
REUNIFICATION OF
THE INSIDE AND
OUTSIDE
METAMODERNISM
RESULTING TO BLANDNESS
OVER – COMPLEXITY RESULTING TO LITERALISM AND AMBIGUITY
MEDIOCRITY
PASTICHE
STAGNANCY
