About This Project
ΑΠ 600.1 Ideal Postmodern City | 1990
Understating the dimension of depth.
“Postmodern architecture is an attempt to standardize rational models in an irrational way, or, more precisely, an attempt to convey such standardization into an image. In principle, it aims to decompose the historic/linguistic material of Architecture, while, in its more avant-garde forms, rational models which are-to-be-decomposed are collected indiscriminately from our physical surroundings, from the metaphysical sphere, or even from the sphere of abstract objects. A characteristic of these conveyances into images – indeed one that makes them depictions rather than representations – is the shift from the three-dimensional space to the multifunctional surface; the supremacy of elevations and decorative elements on such elevations and the revisiting of enclosed plans, shaded as they are by intersecting masonry, bear witness to an understatement of the dimension of depth in design”. Manios, D., Architectural Design and Advanced Technourgia, futura, Athens 2013, p. 159 [full text in Greek].
“Postmodern architecture is an attempt to standardize rational models in an irrational way, or, more precisely, an attempt to convey such standardization into an image. In principle, it aims to decompose the historic/linguistic material of Architecture, while, in its more avant-garde forms, rational models which are-to-be-decomposed are collected indiscriminately from our physical surroundings, from the metaphysical sphere, or even from the sphere of abstract objects. A characteristic of these conveyances into images – indeed one that makes them depictions rather than representations – is the shift from the three-dimensional space to the multifunctional surface; the supremacy of elevations and decorative elements on such elevations and the revisiting of enclosed plans, shaded as they are by intersecting masonry, bear witness to an understatement of the dimension of depth in design”. Manios, D., Architectural Design and Advanced Technourgia, futura, Athens 2013, p. 159 [full text in Greek].