Assignment 10: Postmodernism+Remix

Postmodernist and ‘remix’ techniques are a vibrant part of our design culture today. Find an example of contemporary design— 2D or 3D—and post it to your blog along with a description of what techniques it utilises and how they serve to ‘add meaning’ to the work.

Deconstructivism is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. it is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure’s surface or skin, non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope.

Figure 1.Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by  Canadian-American architect Frank O.Gehry,built by Ferrovial and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The ingenuity of Frank O.Gehry, the use of advanced software made by the French aerospace company Dassault – capable of transforming utopian designs into reality by supplanting the right angles of Euclidean geometry.The architect said that 'the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light'.It is striking because of its series of concave and convex surfaces, dressed in stone and titanium plates that change colour according to the amount of sunlight and reflect in the waters of the Nervión(Prina, 2006).Computer simulations of the building's structure made it feasible to build shapes that architects of earlier eras would have found nearly impossible to construct.

Almost from the moment it opened to public in 1997 until now, that museum was hailed as one of the most important building of the 20 century. His spaces use unlike any others of the presentation of art. Make the whole things related to each other in the urban context. So that is why people even give Frank O.Gehry a nickname ‘the other Frank’.And also it was widely credited with the idea 'putting Bilbao on the map'.

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 Figure 1.Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Retrieved from: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/secciones/multimedi/salvapantallas_fondos.php?idioma=en 

Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao Retrieved from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao

Deconstructivism Retrieved from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstructivism


Prina, Francesca (2006) 1000 Years of World Architecture: an illustrated guide London: Thames & Hudson

Woodham, J. (1997). Pop to Post-Modernism: Changing Values in Twentieth-Century Design (pp.182-203) Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press