Postmodern

In architecture, the adjective postmodern found fertile cultural ground, priming a process which started out from criticism and historiography, and finally became the unifying label of a series of trends, theoretical propositions and concrete experiences. The postmodern in architecture can therefore be read overall as a reemergence of archetypes, or as a reintegration of architectonic conventions, and thus as a premise to the creation of an architecture of communication, an architecture of the image for a civilization of the image. Another aspect of the postmodern condition is the progressive dismantling of the bases of the critical theory of bourgeois society. The postmodern condition has put into crisis even that discipline that the Modern Movement had placed beside architecture, as a theoretical guarantee of its socialization: city planning understood as the science of territorial transformations. Post-industrial society will no longer need great convulsive concentrations and villes tentaculaires, just as modern industry no longer needs cathedrals of work.