1. Themes of Postmodernism

2. Modern Architecture Seagram Building 1958

3. Postmodern Architecture AT&T Headquarters (now Sony Building) 1984

4. Multivalent in its Environment “A univalent work or building attempts to refer only to itself. A multivalent building reaches out to the rest of its environment and makes different associations. This ensures that a work will have multiple resonances, and different readings.” —Jenks in Postmodernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture

5. From Hybridity and Back Pre-Modern (antiquity – 1800s) –Unintentional Hybridity Contagious Magic, Imitative Magic Culture = Nature Ideas = Things Present = Past Modernity (1800s – 1960s) –Intentional Categories Postmodernity (1960s – Present) –Intentional Hybridity

6. Postmodernity is Modernity but pushes it further: The End of History –There will never be a resolution (utopia/dystopia) –Capitalism won The End of Truth –No social reality, only representation and simulacra –No more critical distance –The Gulf War Did Not Take Place Baudrillard –Multiculturalism Female circumcision is acceptable, Georgia is fine The End of “The End” (no more dustbins of history) –There is nothing special about the present

7. Reality is a Game “The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games. … Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. … A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding” —Neuromancer by William Gibson 1984

8. The World is a Text Neo: Is that... Cypher: The Matrix? Yeah. Neo: Do you always look at it encoded? Cypher: Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head…