9/29 After Class Post -- N.S.

 After digesting our class on 9/29, the linkage between Jencks' thoughts and connections between architecture and the postmodernist realm are deeply clear. As we scrolled through all the images and looked at how the world has adopted and created so many architectural phenomenons, so much inspiration has come from exactly what Jencks' has understood before many people following. One piece of information said by Jencks truly clicked with the revolutionary inventions and innovations surrounding transportation. 

"The most commonly-held aim of postmodern architects is to achieve an urbane urbanism. Urban contextualism gains near universal assent. New buildings, according to this doctrine, should be both fit into and extend the urban context, reuse such constants as the street, arcade and piazza, yet acknowledge too the new technologies and means of transport. This double injunction amounts to a new rule, as clear and well defined as any tenet of Canonic Classicism. Furthermore, there are those such as Leon Krier who would argue for an optimum relationship between all the parts of a city, what I have called the 'proper balance' between essential elements: public to private, work to living, monument  to infill, short blocks to city grid, foreground square to background housing" (Jencks, 1987, p. 285). 

This is a great explanation and incredibly detail oriented layout of how cities are so meticulous and how this emerged from postmodern thought. The idea that Jencks states derives from urbane urbanism comes from inspiration and advancements from eighteenth century European cities, villages, and towns. These advancements and improvements have come a long way and I do feel curious in the sense that there will be so many for postmodern inspirations for advancements in urbane environments. It is so much more lively to be able to be in an urban area where all of the things that Jencks is talking about is happening before your eyes. Building placement, stylistic choices, and the flow of the environment is all so well detailed and planned. The framework changes!