Task: To select two articles from a list issues of the journal Architectural Design (AD) that you consider difficult. Present a summary of the hey argument contained in each article.

Article 1: Charles Jenicks, Post-Modernism and Discontinuity, Vol. 57 1-2, 1987

The article begins to discuss how the Post-Modernism movement was a response to the modernist movement of "simplified architecture and bland furnishings"pg5, The discontinuity of the post-modernist movement was a way of dealing with this simplistic architectural form.

The modernist's vision was maintained through extreme measures "in case anyone got ot of line, or made a mess with personalized ashtray, battalions of janitors equipped with floor plans and precise aesthetic commands, would march out every night to edit diverse reality and return it to the perfect corporate dream" pg5.

I believe the main argument put forward about the Post-Modern movement was that

"Discontinuity is legitimate, if limited, strategy for art and ar

Overall I believe this article highlights the continued criticism of the modernist architecture through film.

The general criticism of modern architecture is one of cold & dullness, shown by the film "Playtime,1967" with "This world of soulless corridors, glass doors and privacy panels creates a ludicrous balletic vision of legs and feet robbed of their bodies, dancing around gaps in the architecture" pg22.

chitecture in the pluralist age, one that expresses our 'contradictions and inconsistencies as Venturi and Stirling insist. But it is necessarily incomplete method until it is supplemented by a symbolic program or some unifying plot" pg8.

Part of the Post Modernist's approach to new building development was not to design large corporate schemes as one but instead to design them as though "imitating the city of memory built over time" pg7, so the building appeared as if "many architects constructed them for different, if related, clients" pg7. This form of mimicking a city built over time was the essence of architects such as Jeremy Dixon & James Stirling.

"Architecture in film can undergo a transformation from static set to anthropomorphic pa

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)