BEYOND A NEW ARCHITECTURE TOWARD A STILL NEWER ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

In disagreement with others, the Author sees no temporal crisis between modernism and postmodernism. On the contrary, there is a normal development, in course of which modern gets tired, aged, its inherent contradictions sharpen, bias get disclosed. Wobbling of modern dogmas clears the way for - sometimes extreme - experiments likely to introduce a new stage in the development of architecture. Economical, social, ideological changes will be outlined, from which postmodern approach has germinated. Recognition of the limits of increase, of hazards of a technicized environment, disbelief in the computability and controllability of the world, - in general, in the omnipotence of technics, - all these urge to develop a traditionalist, environment-conscious architectural language, that fits the organic development process, informally addresses man and society. These, rather than certain extreme experiments, are the endeavours representing the spirit of postmodernism.