It?s the ideas that matter, not the classification of them
The inaugural monthly column from Curbed?s editor-in-chief turns an eye to Postmodernism, following the loss of Robert Venturi Ethos > Aesthetic
Some consider exercise the healthiest and most enlightened form of stress relief, but my personal default mode is set to turning pages, not pounding pavement. So for this, my inaugural Editor Notes, I?m dipping into the stacks in search of an explanation on aesthetics.
Postmodernism has been top-of-mind for some time now?dripping into our subconscious with the return of Memphis, a revival of (and revulsion to) critical theory in the midst of a particularly absurdist political era, and, more urgently, following the death last week of architect Robert Venturi.
Talk about a man with a mission: Venturi?who, along with his wife and ?inspiring and equal partner,? Denise Scott Brown?was a ?close reader of buildings,? a contrarian who wrote a ?gentle manifesto? that promoted populist architecture, and a designer whose verbose structures both laud the glory of the past and thank God for the present. But he was first and foremost identified with kickstarting the Postmodern movement in architecture (see: Vanna Venturi house, 1962). To hell with the aesthetic tyranny of chilly modernism! As Venturi put it in the aforementioned manifesto, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: ?Less is a bore.? One description of Postmodernism that sticks with me comes courtesy of Joan Kron?author of two of my favorite out-ther...
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