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
             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 architecture 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.
             French philosopher Jean-Francois argued that there "are no 'meta-narratives' of religion, politics, social vision or aesthetics that can command universal assent today" pg6
             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 archit
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