Architecture centre’s exhibition challenges postmodern views

by sadia_badhon | November 15, 2018 3:36 pm

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The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is presenting “Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths[2]” until April 7, 2019. The exhibit shows a reading of the postmodern movement in architecture.

“One version or another or the idea of ‘architecture itself’ has been used by architects to manage the encounters between things operating beyond individual control. The notion has been called upon since at least the early modern period when the notion that architecture was a godly rather than human matter was invented but postmodernity is what gave the idea the power of myth,” explains Sylvia Lavin, curator of the exhibition.

Through the presentation, Lavin puts forth the idea of architecture as being a discipline that is extraordinarily ordinary because it too must go through bureaucratic procedures, adhere to building codes, apply for research grants, generate revenue, and patent designs. It shows postmodern procedures and the broad selection of material evidence such as invoices, surveys, exhibition posters, reproduced models, travel photography, and Xeroxed drawings, which come together with a series of architectural fragments to challenge postmodern narratives.

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