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Charles Jencks - 13 Propositions

Postmodern architecture values complexity over simplicity, embraces contradiction and chaos, and draws on history and memory. It recognizes that architecture uses symbolic codes and requires ornamentation, metaphor, and eclecticism. Postmodern architecture must form contextual relationships with its surroundings, involve participatory design that reflects social pluralism, confront ecological realities through sustainable principles, and evolve through criticism, process, and humor over time.

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Charles Jencks - 13 Propositions

Postmodern architecture values complexity over simplicity, embraces contradiction and chaos, and draws on history and memory. It recognizes that architecture uses symbolic codes and requires ornamentation, metaphor, and eclecticism. Postmodern architecture must form contextual relationships with its surroundings, involve participatory design that reflects social pluralism, confront ecological realities through sustainable principles, and evolve through criticism, process, and humor over time.

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13 Propositions of Post Modern Architecture

1. MULTIVALENCE
Multivalence is preferred to univalence, imagination to fancy
Literally means, having multiple values
Values in terms of form, function and aesthetics of a building
Modernism focuses on more of the functional value completely ignoring the aesthetics.

2. COMPLEXITY & CONTRADICTION

Complexity and contradiction are preferred to over simplicity and Minimalism


Minimalism considered as boring and bland

3. COMPLEXITY AND CHAOS

Theories are considered more basic in explaining nature than linear dynamics; that is, more of nature is
non linear in behaviour than linear

4. MEMORY & HISTORY

Memory and history are inevitable in DNA, language, style and the city and are positive catalysts for
invention
Using elements from the past or inculcating elements of historical importance in the building
5. CODING AND SYMBOLISM
All architecture is invented and perceived through codes, hence the languages of architecture and
symbolic architecture, hence the double coding of architecture within the codes of both the professional
and populace

6. RADICAL ECLECTICISM

All codes are influenced by a semiotic community and various taste cultures, hence the need in a pluralist
culture for a design based on radical eclecticism
Use of elements originating from the tradition or culture

7. UNIVERSAL IN NATURE

Architecture is a public language, hence the need for a Post Modern Classicism which is partly based on
architectural universals and a changing technology

8. ORNAMENTATION

Necessitates ornament (or pattern) which should be symbolic and symphonic, hence the relevance of
information theory
Using various elements like trompe loeil art of creating an illusion of space or depths where none
actually exists
9. METAPHOR
Necessitates metaphor and this should relate us to natural and cultural concerns, hence the explosion of
zoomorphic imagery, face houses and scientific iconography instead of machines for living

10. CONTEXTUALISM

Architecture must form the city, hence Contextualism, Collage City, Neo- Rationalism, small block
planning, and mixed uses and ages of buildings.
A building must belong to a city or a place

11. PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

Must crystallize social reality and in the global city today, the Heteropolis, that very much means the
pluralism of ethnic groups, hence participatory design and adhocism

12. GREEN ARCHITECTURE

Must confront the ecological reality and that means sustainable development, green architecture and
cosmic symbolism

13. COSMOGENIC ARCHITECTURE

A need for an architecture which celebrates criticism, process and humour


Architecture must expand and evolve with time

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