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A FRESH PERSPECTIVE

METAMODERNISM

INVESTIGATING THE

EXISTENCE OF

METAMODERNISM IN

LOCAL ARCHITECTURE

METAMODERNISMMODERNISM POSTMODERNISM

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

Modernism:

- Notion of the new, the future- Start of history (a distinction between

the old and new)- Separation from the old classical

trends

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

In Aesthetics In Philosophy In Worldview

Simple Harmonies Monism Mechanical

Formal Flatness Materialism Heirarchical

Abstract/Ahistorical

Utopian Accidental Universe

Reductivist Existentialist/Alienated

Innocent/

Straightforward

Postmodernism

- Age of lost innocence- Idea of Plenty- Progress is irrelevant- History is complex

Postmodernism

- Pluralism- World culture

In Aesthetics In Philosophy In Worldview

Disharmonious

harmonyPluralism Ecological

Content-driven Semiotic view Heterarchical

Time-binding Heterotopian Anthropic principle

Holistic Embedded

Lost

innocence/

ironic

ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM AND

POSTMODERNISM IN THE PHILIPPINES?

PH MODERNISM

OLD GSIS BUILDING, MANILA

(1952)

PHILAMLIFE THEATER

(1961)

PICACHE BUILDING

(MID-1950’s)

UP INTERNATIONAL CENTER

CHURCH OF THE HOLY SACRIFICE

CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES

MAIN THEATER (1969)

PH POSTMODERNISM

NATIONAL ARTS CENTER (1976)

BAGUIO CONVENTION CENTER (1978)

COCONUT PALACE (1981)

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

LATE PH POSTMODERNISM

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

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.”

- Jim Jarmusch

Judith Torres is currently the editor-in-chief of BluPrint and Condo Living magazines by Mega Publishing Group

“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)

The idea of plenty gone wild

Architectural aesthetics dictated by giant

corporations and commodities

Production of poor copies of “modernism”

(A pseudo-modern phenomenon)

“Gusto ko yung parang zen na minimalist”

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

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.

“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)

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

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 atthe 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

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).

“The word ‘metaxy’ is a

Greek preposition,

meaning ‘between’.”

- James M. Rhodes (http://www.lsu.edu/artsci/groups/voegelin/society/2003%20Papers/Rhodes.shtml)

Meta –

More than, beyond

- Merriam Webster

Dictionary

“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 (MinorouYamasaki) 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.

Metamodernism

Modernism Postmodernism

Modernism Postmodernism

Metamodernism

Identity-finding

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

METAMODERNISM

NEOROMANTICISM

PERFORMATISM

“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)

PERFORMATISM

Romanticize –

To think about or describe

something as being better

or more attractive or

interesting than it really is

- Merriam-Webster

Dictionary

NEOROMANTICISM

=

To create something new

by making one better

NEOROMANTICISM

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.

ANCIENT ANDPRE-RENAISSANCE

RENAISSANCE

EARLY MODERN

MODERNISM

POSTMODERNISMBased on the book: “Isms, Understanding Architectectural Styles”


RENAISSANCE

EARLY MODERN

MODERNISM

POSTMODERNISM

METAMODERNISM

3000 BC 0 500AD 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

Pre-classicismIndism

Proto-classicism

Hellenic classicismConfucianism

Roman classicismPre-columbianism

ShintoismChristian Classicism

Islamisicm Indo-khmerismGothic Scholasticism

Gothic Commercialism

Inventionism

HumanismIdealsim

Mannerism

Pietism

Regional ClassicismBaroque

Absolutism

Angelican Empiricism

Rococo

Palladism

Georgian Urbanism

NeoclassicismExoticism

SublimismStructural Rationalism

MaterialismMidievalism

VictorianismMonumental Urbanism

Anti-urbanismDecorative Urbanism

Imperialism

ExpressionismUsonianismConstructivismPurismRationalismFunctionalismSkyscrapersimCorporatism

Brutalism

StructuralismStructuralism

MetabolismTechnoismNeo-RationalismDeconstructivismEcoism

Based on the book: “Isms, Understanding Architectectural Styles”

METAMODERNISM


RENAISSANCE

EARLY MODERN

MODERNISM

POSTMODERNISM

Metarationalism

3000 BC 0 500AD 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

Pre-classicismIndism

Proto-classicism

Hellenic classicismConfucianism

Roman classicismPre-columbianism

ShintoismChristian Classicism

Islamisicm Indo-khmerismGothic Scholasticism

Gothic Commercialism

Inventionism

HumanismIdealsim

Mannerism

Pietism

Regional ClassicismBaroque

Absolutism

Angelican Empiricism

Rococo

Palladism

Georgian Urbanism

NeoclassicismExoticism

SublimismStructural Rationalism

MaterialismMidievalism

VictorianismMonumental Urbanism

Anti-urbanismDecorative Urbanism

Imperialism

ExpressionismUsonianismConstructivismPurismRationalismFunctionalismSkyscrapersimCorporatism

Brutalism

StructuralismStructuralism

MetabolismTechnoismNeo-RationalismDeconstructivismEcoism

Based on the book: “Isms, Understanding Architectectural Styles”


RENAISSANCE

EARLY MODERN

MODERNISM

POSTMODERNISM

METAMODERNISM

3000 BC 0 500AD 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000

NEOROMANTICISM

=

METARATIONALISM

so WHAT’S NEXT?

“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)

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”

- Charles Darwin (1809)

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so WHAT’S NEXT?

the NEXT MOVE

the METAMODERN

MOVEMENT IN

ARCHITECTURE

SIMPLEXITY

THE MIDPOINT BETWEEN

SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY

SIMPLEXITY

SIMPLEXITYCLARITY AND

RICHNESS

ABSTRACT BUT

CONCRETE

INSIDE AND

OUTSIDE,

REUNITED

CLARITYAND

RICHNESS

SIMPLEXITY

POSTMODERN

COMPLEXITY IN

ARCHITECTURE

=

COMPLEX COMBINATION

OF DIFFERENT

ELEMENTS

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RICHNESS

SIMPLEXITY

CLARITYVS

COMPLEXITY

SIMPLEXITY

CLARITYAND

RICHNESS

SIMPLEXITY

CLARITYAND

RICHNESS

SIMPLEXITY

ARCHITECTURE

AS A WHOLE

=

CLEARER

MESSAGE

CLARITYAND

RICHNESS

SIMPLEXITY

CLARITYAND

RICHNESS

SIMPLEXITY

CLARITYVS

COMPLEXITY

SIMPLEXITY

JUST

LIKE….

CLARITYAND

RICHNESS

SIMPLEXITY