As a current student of theory, I like when things relate. Most of the time this doesn't make sense until the fifth time I read it and maybe even not then or even the twenty-fifth time. However, in this reading of "The Emergent Rules" by Charles Jenks, I am once again pulled into modernity and its schizophrenic nature.
He speaks about the eleven different ways in which art and architecture have developed over the ages. The rules with which they are associated and how they have been both forwarded and regressed by modernism. At the end o his discussion, Jenks says:
"Rules, however, do no necessarily a masterpiece make, and tend to generate new sets of dead-ends, imbalances and urban problems. Hence the ambivalence of our age to orthodoxy and the romantic impulse to challenge all canons of art and architecture while, at the same time, retaining them as a necessary precondition for creation: simultaneously promoting rules and breaking them." (Jenks 294)
This brings me to my conclusion of the schizophrenia associated with modernism that is apparent throughout the themes of art and architecture in this particular article. The ever-changing nature of the evolution into the 'modern age' has both been argued for and against. We and the generation after us will always want to retain what has been done before for tradition's sake while seeking to break tradition and create new ideas and rules (more like guidelines, really) on every impulse we have.
He speaks about the eleven different ways in which art and architecture have developed over the ages. The rules with which they are associated and how they have been both forwarded and regressed by modernism. At the end o his discussion, Jenks says:
"Rules, however, do no necessarily a masterpiece make, and tend to generate new sets of dead-ends, imbalances and urban problems. Hence the ambivalence of our age to orthodoxy and the romantic impulse to challenge all canons of art and architecture while, at the same time, retaining them as a necessary precondition for creation: simultaneously promoting rules and breaking them." (Jenks 294)
This brings me to my conclusion of the schizophrenia associated with modernism that is apparent throughout the themes of art and architecture in this particular article. The ever-changing nature of the evolution into the 'modern age' has both been argued for and against. We and the generation after us will always want to retain what has been done before for tradition's sake while seeking to break tradition and create new ideas and rules (more like guidelines, really) on every impulse we have.
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