Rubber Soul, 1/29

Todays field trip was very helpful in understanding the different facets that postmodernism employs through architecture. I started noticing so many more buildings after our adventure today and kept thinking about what kind of themes were present. It's funny how certain things go unnoticed until you are taught to look at them a certain way. Our major is another great example of this idea of learning the sort of under the radar information, which benefits people if they are taught to understand the media in a different light, instead of absorbing it without a critical eye. The buildings today, can tell you a lot about a culture through the postmodern themes they represent. Tradition reinterpreted, for instance, exhibits the type of culture we still see as aesthetically appealing and honorable in the way we build structures to represent that style. Double-coding is an aspect in architecture where a structure doesn't only serve as a function but it is also ornate and interesting to look at. We saw an example of that with the Lynx building where the exoskeleton for the wave-like structures not only serve as stabilizers but also they exert an interesting visual appeal. The court-house was a magnificent building that I probably wouldn't have appreciated as much if we weren't told to take a minute to examine it. Anamnesis was apparent in this building because it looks like the giant "seat of justice" with the central building as the back of the chair and the two protruding buildings on the side as the arms of it. Overall it was an enlightening experience, and really helped me think out of the box when it comes to architecture.