February 11, 2005
rewriting modernism
We live in a time when the principle of rationality, as embodied in the exchange relationships of the market, tramples tradition underfoot.
Would this Max Prichard Bartel Gardiner House, Adelaide SA, 2001 be an example?
I reckon that it is.
It turns its back on the regional architecture that had developed. It treats the past as trash that needs to erased to the groundd to make way for the new.
Now you could say that modernism has become a tradition; one that we have reacted against in the name of a different kind of dwelling.
If so, then how do we rewrite the meaning of a modernist modernity?
That we inhabit the city only to declare that it is uninhabitable?
That has been our experience of cities as forms of living in the 20th century, has it not?
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at February 11, 2005 03:10 PM | TrackBack