Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Lecture 18/3/08

Post modernism:

"postmodernity is everwherre, from litrature,design and philosophy, to MTV ice cream and underware."

Postmodernity: The state or ideology of being post modern.
postmodernism: The association of being post modern.

Value systems provide societal, cultural and economicency.

Postmodernism is inovative and inveitave.

levitton- 17000 identical houses, in big rows back to back.
-nature supressed
-women supressed

NZ women vote in 1893
American women vote 1903, ten years afrer New Zealand women.

Richard Hamilton: Just what is it that makes today's houses so different, so appealing...

The hippy movement 1960's.
LSD used to design metalic and colourful designs/patterns.
People stopped needing and started wanting.
Kennedy commited to the space race. get to the moon before the sovit union.
Design followed the moon landing.

Ettore Sottass: father of postmodernism design.


http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1997.460.1ab.jpg

Postmodernism dosent really say alot about its architecture.

Roland Barthes.

Relationship of a sign

Signified and Signifier

Meaning depends on
-code or association
-Differences matter, not context.

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