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modernity/post-modernity
bRink 2005.04.11 13:02
There is a difference between modernism and postmodernism (which refer to architectural styles, and which can be identified with specific works and eras) and Modernity and Post-modernity (which are more general ideas about progress and change).
Modernity, which adopts an idea about progress towards a rational truth that emerged with the enlightenment, and has a belief that there is some kind of objective universal truth.
Postmodernity by contrast adopts an idea about progress that emerges from citicism, from diverse perspectives questioning one another, seeing a complex world without objective truth, but only relative truths.
I think Modernity and Post-modernity are different ways of seeing, and thus never really "die", but both can have a significant impact on how you design, what your research focuses on, and how you approach that investigation.
modernity/post-modernity
Rita Novel 2005.04.11 13:23
What is the universal truth that Modernity believes in?
What are some examples of relative truths?
[Isn't the notion that the world is "complex without objective truth" itself "a belief that there is some kind of objective universal truth?"]
So Postmodernity replaces Modernity's certainty of rationality with the certainty of relativity?
[Is "the ether" still the playground architectural theory plays in?]
What is more truthful, professional architectural photography or the candid snapshot of a building?
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