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<p>Denise Scott Brown a trailblazing architect and advocate for postmodernism played a pivotal role in reshaping the architectural landscape by championing the inclusion of postmodern urban and housing experience. The paper focuses on the transition from modernist formalist and functional understanding of the city, towards postmodern urban methods as represented by DSB, photography, collage, active socioplastics, attention to consumerist symbolism, as a means of encoding the empirics of urbanism, the living cities. In everyday scenes she documented social interactions, meditated on complexities of postmodern experience of poverty and wealth, criticism of increasing commercialization of the image of the city, and muteness of formally planned urban scape, and architectural vernacular of twentieth century American city. She was a precursor in her socially informed studies of postmodern society and its embodiment in suburban housing, such as in “Learning form Levittown”. She applied the new methodology and critical yet inclusive observation of complexities and challenges of contemporary cityscape.</p>
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Denise Scott Brown a trailblazing architect and advocate for postmodernism played a pivotal role in reshaping the architectural landscape by championing the inclusion of postmodern urban and housing experience. The paper focuses on the transition from modernist formalist and functional understanding of the city, towards postmodern urban methods as represented by DSB, photography, collage, active socioplastics, attention to consumerist symbolism, as a means of encoding the empirics of urbanism, the living cities. In everyday scenes she documented social interactions, meditated on complexities of postmodern experience of poverty and wealth, criticism of increasing commercialization of the image of the city, and muteness of formally planned urban scape, and architectural vernacular of twentieth century American city. She was a precursor in her socially informed studies of postmodern society and its embodiment in suburban housing, such as in “Learning form Levittown”. She applied the new methodology and critical yet inclusive observation of complexities and challenges of contemporary cityscape.

Denise Scott Brown: A Precursor in Encoding Complexities and Challenges of Contemporary Stratified Urban Life, Suburban Sociologies, and the Symbolism of Postmodern Housing

Środowisko Mieszkaniowe/Housing Environment

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Denise Scott Brown a trailblazing architect and advocate for postmodernism played a pivotal role in reshaping the architectural landscape by championing the...

Denise Scott Brown: A Precursor in Encoding Complexities and Challenges of Contemporary Stratified Urban Life, Suburban Sociologies, and the Symbolism of Postmodern Housing

Published Online: May 11, 2024

Page range: 10 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/he-2024-0002

Keywords
Suburban Sociologies, Socioplastics, Postmodern Urbanism

© 2024 Olga Chrzanowska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Denise Scott Brown: A Precursor in Encoding Complexities and Challenges of Contemporary Stratified Urban Life, Suburban Sociologies, and the Symbolism of Postmodern Housing

Published Online: May 11, 2024

Page range: 10 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/he-2024-0002

KeywordsSuburban Sociologies, Socioplastics, Postmodern Urbanism

© 2024 Olga Chrzanowska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Suburban Sociologies, Socioplastics, Postmodern Urbanism