Lyotard

Question 1

Lyotard essay

Answer 1

Defining the Postmodern

Question 2

Main difference between modern and postmodern

Answer 2

No longer “any close linkage between the architectural project and socio-historical progress in the realisation of human emancipation on the larger scale”
No illusion of progress within rationality and freedom

Question 3

Return of the Repressed

Answer 3

High freq of elements from previous styles or periods, giving up the consideration of environment

Question 4

Idea of modernity and why problematic

Answer 4

It is possible and necessary to begin an entirely new way of thinking, to break with tradition. But breaking only means forgetting or repressing the past, not overcoming it, meaning it is doomed to be repeated

Question 5

Incredulity towards metanarratives; good that we have left them behind in favour of local narratives

Answer 5

“Human entities (individual or social) seem always to be destabilised by the results of development”

Question 6

Working through of old styles eg e hoes in architecture

Answer 6

Healthy, like a Freudian therapy: we are working through repressed trauma by returning to the last, confronting and overcoming it.