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A paper which looks at the postmodern and high-tech movements in architecture, with specific reference to individual buildings representing these trends. The paper also looks at the relationship between architecture and the political, social and economic processes of the latter part of the twentieth century. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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to high-tech, it is necessary to set it in a historical and sociological context: the derivation of postmodernism from modernism, for example, is important.
Modernism itself is derived from Enlightenment thought and philosophy, which focused on the construction of order from chaos: the doctrines of rationality not only asserted that the more rational a
society was, the more effectively it would function, but also that one of the main objectives of such societies was to constantly assimilate disorder and irrationality, and convert them to
order and reason. However, in order for this to be achieved, there must always be both order and chaos: it is necessary to have the pre-existing duality so that order
can constantly be synthesized out of chaos. Modernist design, therefore, reflects the superiority of order over disorder, and the way that function
and rationality is reflected in form. Postmodernism, on the other hand, does not make these kinds of distinctions between order and disorder, Self and Other. Rather than having a strict
dichotomy between that which is rational, ordered and acceptable and that which is chaotic, dangerous and threatening, postmodernism offers a multitude of different perspectives none of which are seen as
inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental principle which must be espoused.
Klages (2003) points out that the focus is no longer on what she refers to as political grand narratives such as the liberation of the workers, but rather on
individual local goals which are not seen as driven by global and fundamental plans, but are of value on a far more diverse level: this is reflected in the diversity
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