后现代历史主义的源起、兴盛与衰退

The Emergence, Prosperity and Decline of Postmodern Historicism

在现代主义风靡全球的20世纪,一群富有批判性的建筑师极力反对单一面貌、人文缺失、机能主义的现代建筑。他们以罗伯特·文丘里为代表,强调建筑应该拥有自身的复杂性与矛盾性。为达到对历史性的追求,他们主张运用元素化、符号化的设计语言修饰建筑,这就是活跃在上世纪70至90年代的后现代历史主义。本文以普利兹克奖获奖者为线索,透过几位建筑大师的思想和作品,探讨后现代历史主义的源起、兴盛与衰退。

In the 20th Century, when modernism was popular around the globe, a group of architects with critical thinking strongly opposed modern buildings, which featured monotonous appearance, functionalism and lack of humanism. Robert Venturi, representing this group,emphasizes that buildings should have their own complexity and contradiction. In the pursuit of buildings with historical sense, these architects advocated to use elements and symbols to design and decorate buildings, i.e. postmodern historicism, which gained active presence from the 1970s to the 1990s. This article is threaded by several Pritzker Prize winners. From the thoughts and works of the great architects, the present article discusses the emergence, prosperity and decline of postmodern historicism.