Przestrzenie różnicy. Modernizm, postmodernizm i dekonstruktywizm w architekturze (próba definicji)
Spaces of Difference: Modernism, Postmodernism and Deconstructivism in Architecture (An Attempt at Definition)

Summary/Abstract: Works of architecture of the twentieth-century main trends differ not only in their obtained forms. A set of characteristic forms may be indicated for modernism, but even referring to this style historians of architecture avoided defining it basing only on visual aspects of these works. Postmodernism complicated to a great extent such attempts to define by opening itself to formal contradiction and complexity of the outer expression of the works. In approach to characterise modernism, postmodernism and deconstructivism it seems necessary to take into consideration also the ways of these trends’ authors and works’ reference to the possibility of treating architecture as a medium of meaning. The subsequent distinguishers apply to ascribing the function of shaping a define social order to architecture. Each trend differed additionally in its attitude towards tradition. The architects differed also in ascribing to technics a particular role in life of contemporary societies. In the circle of modernists it even came to attributing sacral power to technics, what naturally was rejected by postmodernists. The set of differences is completed by ascribing some architects the role of a social demiurge, with which other architects disagree, comprehending their activity exclusively in categories of a specialist or a representative of a particular profession.

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