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MEANING AND METAPHOR IN POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE IN REFRENCE TO THE CENTRE POMPIDOU
An Analysis into the Aesthetics of the postmodern architecture is by nature; inspired and, intrinsically, and quintessentiallyrepresentativewithreferenceto the Pompidou centre
Introduction
If one were to look at some characteristics of postmodern architecture, or just postmodernism in general, a common component would be part of declining - by rejection, I mean, the rejection of thecorrectmindset which modernist thinkers, or in this case, modernist architects employed and/or attempted to convey.
Abstract
I will examine the Pompidou system in terms of the abandonment of traditional building styles and its various typical characteristics, in order to prove that it is extremely, an indication of postmodern, as opposed to de-constructivist architecture. I will examine the rejection of modernist mindsets in such ahumoristmethodology in the design of the Pompidou centre.1 Postmodernarchitecturehas become associated with stylistic introduction andrespect. This thesis attempts toestablishmeaningand signification, whichis understoodto be inherent. Asanconsequence of visual metaphor which is certainly‘read' as interpretative expressions involving a move from the visual to the linguistic, the model attempts to provide a basis for the semantic interpretation ofpostmodern architecture.
Let us now consider the nature of postmodern structure as well as that of the constructivist movement in architecture.Postmodern Architecture, such as the Nakagin Capsule structure built by Kiso Kurokawa, for example, can be as wildly eclectic and almost ended in order - rebellious, in terms of the