"The Plastics Age"- Penny Sparke

Key points and notes from the reading:

• Post Modernism found value in all the things Modernism threw out (ex- minimalism)
• Reincorporation of details and historical references
• University of Houston School of Architecture (86') example of Post Modernism
• references of temple/church and Palladio's work (Italian church)
• Robert Venturi- most identifiable w/ the Post Modern movement
• for a design to be interesting it needs complexity and contradiction, "less is a bore vs less is more"
• Reading was a collection of essays; first 2 were analyzing plastic (neither for or against it)
• There's a new way of looking at products around us, allow us to really appreciate plastic
• a skin that defines the object and gives it value
• authentic vs. manufactured products, the element of weathered and being worn in over time vs. worn out