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    I Want To Study How Functionality Took A Back Seat in Postmodernism

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    Postmodernist architects emphasized symbolic architectural forms and reinterpreting styles from the past over functional design principles. They believed "function follows form" rather than "form follows function" as in Modernism. As a result, postmodern buildings like the Portland Building and "The duck and decorated shed" featured forms over functionality, with design elements like small windows that occupants found dark and uninviting rather than practical. Functionality thus took a back seat to symbolic design in Postmodernism.

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    Postmodernist architects emphasized symbolic architectural forms and reinterpreting styles from the past over functional design principles. They believed "function follows form" rather than "form follows function" as in Modernism. As a result, postmodern buildings like the Portland Building and "The duck and decorated shed" featured forms over functionality, with design elements like small windows that occupants found dark and uninviting rather than practical. Functionality thus took a back seat to symbolic design in Postmodernism.

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    Postmodernist architects emphasized symbolic architectural forms and reinterpreting styles from the past over functional design principles. They believed "function follows form" rather than "form follows function" as in Modernism. As a result, postmodern buildings like the Portland Building and "The duck and decorated shed" featured forms over functionality, with design elements like small windows that occupants found dark and uninviting rather than practical. Functionality thus took a back seat to symbolic design in Postmodernism.

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    I Want To Study How Functionality Took A Back Seat in Postmodernism

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    Postmodernist architects emphasized symbolic architectural forms and reinterpreting styles from the past over functional design principles. They believed "function follows form" rather than "form follows function" as in Modernism. As a result, postmodern buildings like the Portland Building and "The duck and decorated shed" featured forms over functionality, with design elements like small windows that occupants found dark and uninviting rather than practical. Functionality thus took a back seat to symbolic design in Postmodernism.

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    I want to study how functionality took a back seat in Postmodernism.

    The architects of the Modernism ideology used the concept of “Less is more”,
    “form follow function” and “start from zero”, they believed that ornaments are
    surplus and non-functional.. When people begin to get bored with the glass box
    thing and seem to think that its unwelcoming and unpleasant, this is how the
    postmodernism begun. The idea of Postmodernism in architecture began as a
    response to the lack of strong features and failed Utopianism of the Modern
    movement. The postmodern architects tried to rediscover the expressive and
    symbolic value of architectural elements and forms that had been abandoned by
    the modern style. They believed in “Function follows Form”.Robert Charles
    Venturi, jr. coined the maxim "Less is a bore" as antidote to Mies van der Rohe's
    famous modernist dictum "Less is more“. The importance of form is perhaps one
    of the most debated subjects in contemporary architectural discourse.

    The post-modernists emphasized the nature of architectural forms as cultural


    signifiers. Their work relied on re-interpreting the architecture in ways that
    created symbolic associations with the past. Their main focus was to symbolize
    and ornament the structure. Their theories were based on complexity where
    form does not follow function, rather function follows form. The architects of the
    post-modern times gave more preference to the form of the structure and thus
    the functionality of the structure took a back seat.

    One such example was the Portland Building by Michael Graves which is a 15-
    story municipal office building. The building features tiny windows, which were
    meant to also evoke the body – or "one window, one worker," as he said in his
    1982 lecture – were immediately criticised by occupants as too small, leaving the
    interior dark and uninviting. "Perhaps they were too small, but that was the
    intention," Graves conceded in the League talk. Even the interiors were not
    functional according to the office workers. Another example is “The duck and
    decorated shed” in which the form of the structure is in the shape of duck ,which
    the architect did to fulfil the “humour” principle of post modernism, which
    eventually resulted in degrading the functionality as the structure had no
    windows to it. Thus it is seen that the functionality took a back seat in
    Postmodernism.

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