Neomodern
Neomodern or neomodernist architecture is a reaction to the complexity of postmodern architecture and eclecticism in architecture, seeking greater simplicity. The architectural style, which is also referred to as New Modernism, is said to have legitimized an outlook of comprehensive individualism and relativism.[1]
Background
The move to reboot architectural design is not a recent phenomenon. There are scholars who trace new modernist thoughts to Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture published in the 1920s.[2] This text, which was reprinted in English in 1931 as Towards New Architecture,[3] proposed the replacement of Paris' architectural fabric with crystalline towers.[2] His ideas were taken up by scholars like Earl Baldwin Smith, who criticized the lack of "functional" directness" and "simplicity" of modernist architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright.[4] The subsequent writings of Vautier, identified emergent characteristics of the new architecture, which include the centrality of rationalism, mathematics, and calculation to the aesthetic experience.[5]
Neomodernist architecture holds that contemporary architecture has surpassed postmodernism and neoeclecticism.[citation needed] The scattered trends developed in response to this view coalesced and reinforced each other leading to a new complete form.[1] Several factors contributed to this development and these include the triumph of global capitalism, the emergence of new architectural forms, and the generation of new and more complex architectural theories.[1] There are scholars who also cite the role played by Jewish architectural projects that were erected in European cities such as Vienna.[6] These were products of experiments in form that were oriented towards greater simplicity and the rejection of aristocratic values.[6]
Architecture
Neomodern architecture continues
Artist group
The neomodern artist group was founded in 1997 by
.Examples of neomodern architecture
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Building in Pretoria with a neomodern architectural design.
See also
Notes and references
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- ^ Sherwin, Brian. "Art Space Talk: Guy Denning", myartspace.com, 14 November 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2008.