Non-modern modernity? Neomodern architecture
Journal Title: Art Inquiry. Recherches sur les arts - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
Neo-modernism, as both a philosophical and an architectural current, evolved as a critical response to postmodernism, the movement described by Agnes Heller as “neither conservative, nor revolutionary, nor progressive”. At the same time, neo-modernism adopted some post-modernist assumptions, resulting from the criticism of the modernist movement. Rem Koolhaas emphasized that although contemporary architecture is clearly inspired by modernist aesthetics, it has little in common with the two major attributes of the modern movement – opposition towards context and towards history. Thus, neo-modernism can be described as “unmodern modernity”. According to Jürgen Habermas, being modern is closely related to being free of external axioms. Neo-modernism appears rather to be another form of eclecticism or “a strategy without an aim”, than a new modern movement.
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Błażej Ciarkowski
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