Problem perancangan arsitektur, inspirasi dari tujuh arsitek postmodern

Abstract

Postmodernism, which offers differences or heterogeneity while rejects universal homogeneity, seems to have inspired seven prominent architects. They are: Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, and Coop Himmelblau. What is interesting in their mindset is that their tendency to use the deconstruction method as well as their transgression of conventional rules turns out to be a strategy to delve into spiritual dimensions and to reach the sublime. This research has sought to see the problems coming up from their radical perspectives and its implications, as well as new direction offered, for the practice of architectural design. Hermeneutics is used as the method, by which the thoughts of the seven architects are discovered through intertextual investigation, that is, by dismantling the background, tracking the process of designing, reading and analyzing their works, as well as capturing the issues coming up from the works. The philosophical thoughts of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Derrida and Irigaray are deployed to put the works of the architects in the wider context of postmodernism. The problems coming up from the works of the seven postmodern architects, as found by the research, are as follows: the architectural identities of their works are barely recognizable; the complexity of their design often makes the technical elaboration difficult; imaginative designs, more often than not, take extra-big funding; complicated concept requires intensive communication between the architect, the client, and the workers; when the fa9ade is taken as equally important as the core of the building, it will confuse the proper status of the building. As for the new direction of the practice of designing, some implications from the works of the seven architects are as follows: it is necessary today for architects to look for inspiration from other fields such as philosophy, literature, music, painting, sculpture, choreography, or from nature itself; the process of designing does not always comply to the conventional rules of modernism; to create forms that are more human, it often requires imaginative intelligence and aptitude for combining concept and feeling; it takes courage to be able to play with discontinuity, differences, and hierarchy; now the possibility is wide open to mix mathematical considerations with artistic imagination; and finally, it is important today to put 'experience' as the center of gravity in the designing process.