Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Postmodern Architecture: Build a strong front, marking center and entrance with pediment and pilaster.
- Type
- Set in Postmodern Architecture's manner (Set headings in serif capitals and treat them as ornament with their frames.), and let Radical Architecture's lettering (Write in manifesto voice, short and flat, set beside the image as a note.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Postmodern Architecture's material (Tinted stucco, colored stone, metal trim switching color plane by plane.); bring in exactly one thing from Radical Architecture (Photomontage, flat black and white planes, mass produced furniture overwritten.).
- Colour
- Build on #e7d7c8, #b45d77, #526489 and admit one accent from #eae5d9, #d14a37, #24221f.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Modern Architecture, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Postmodern Architecture Pasting on pediments and pilasters without knowing what they quote loses the irony and leaves a dated theme park facade, so read what in modernism is criticized and who the building addresses.
- Radical Architecture Borrowing the giant grid imagery without naming what it criticizes turns a stance of doubt into futuristic wallpaper.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Postmodern Architecture (Style, 1960s–1990s) and its accent from Radical Architecture (Style, late-1960s–1970s). Structural cues: Historical quotation; Ornament returned; Strong color; Double meanings. Accent cues, used sparingly: Speculative cities; Anti-functionalism; Vast grids; Play and critique. Composition: Build a strong front, marking center and entrance with pediment and pilaster.. Type and lettering: Set headings in serif capitals and treat them as ornament with their frames.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Photomontage, flat black and white planes, mass produced furniture overwritten.. Mood: Play, Rebellion, Exhilaration, Futurism. Color: build on #e7d7c8, #b45d77, #526489 with a single accent drawn from #eae5d9, #d14a37, #24221f. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Postmodern Architecture 1960s–1990s / Style / Modern Architecture
Rebels against modernism's universality, reintroducing historical quotation, ornament, sign, color and irony to city and building.
- Radical Architecture late-1960s–1970s / Style / Modern Architecture
Objects to functionalism and consumer society, critiquing architecture's own premises with fictional cities, furniture, photographs and collage.
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