Industrial Revolution & Arch

Aim: To become familiar with the various theoretical positions and writings in the histories and theories of western architecture. 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 Architectural Design. The article begins to discuss how the Post-Modernism movement was a response to the modernist movement …

…titive houses in the new suburb" pg22. Films such as Stanley Kubrick's Clock Work Orange attack the Modernist movement, using this architecture as the "perfect soulless backdrop to outrageous violence and thuggery" pg23. Film has made it increasingly hard for the modernist to raise his head when so many films "will continue to testify eloquently to its many failures" pg25. Overall I believe this article highlights the continued criticism of the modernist architecture through film.