I'm sure I speak for more than myself when I say that the photo examples, particularly of architecture, are extremely helpful in visualizing some of our concepts. I've been fortunate to have travelled a good bit, and actually have some pictures I took myself of some of these forms.
This first picture is of the Skytree in Tokyo, Japan. It's nearly 2,080 feet tall, and to me, I'd classify it as divergent significance. It seems to be, as Jencks put it, an "extension of a traditional genre". Not all of its elements are unique, and you can trace the building's architecture to previous structure, but there are elements that grew into something new.
This is a shot of the Shanghai skyline, with several of the buildings we examined in class. It's one of the most unique in the world, and is made up of many different styles of postmodern architecture. The taller two buildings strike me as new rhetorical figures, combing "fashion and function", in the words of Jencks. The building in the center that is lit up blue is one that we looked at in class, that almost resembles a handle. Because of the cutout, this one is clearly an absent center.
The last building is the Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The circular part jutting out the side is the Saigon Skydeck, an observatory floor of the tower. I'd see this as tradition reinterpreted possibly, as the majority of the building is what a familiar skyscraper would look like, with a new twist for the deck section. I think it could be argued that this also represents divergent significance, as its roots come from a traditional style.
I'm still in the process of grappling with the exact definitions of all of this classifications, but to see them manifested in postmodern architecture has definitely helped my understanding. I'm hoping to do some more research on the effects of postmodern thought on construction and architecture, and hopefully I'll do a second blog post in the future with more knowledge and applications!
The last building is the Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The circular part jutting out the side is the Saigon Skydeck, an observatory floor of the tower. I'd see this as tradition reinterpreted possibly, as the majority of the building is what a familiar skyscraper would look like, with a new twist for the deck section. I think it could be argued that this also represents divergent significance, as its roots come from a traditional style.
I'm still in the process of grappling with the exact definitions of all of this classifications, but to see them manifested in postmodern architecture has definitely helped my understanding. I'm hoping to do some more research on the effects of postmodern thought on construction and architecture, and hopefully I'll do a second blog post in the future with more knowledge and applications!
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