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- uncountablearchitectureAn architectural style following modernism and postmodernism, promoted by Hans Ibelings.
As Hans lbelings describes in his provocatively titled study Supermodernism, among a small but influential group of contemporary architects what almost amounts to a new form of 'international style' has found renewed validation in the commercial nation of the global brand.
2004, Kevin Nute, Place, Time, and Being in Japanese Architecture, page 42 more examples
Ibelings has termed the formal vocabulary of these architecturally interesting airports and of other similar large-scale works "supermodernism." Instead of taking an interest in the contextual and historical factors of architecture (as in the 70s and 80s), supermodernism is characterized by a susceptibility to categories like the neutral, the indistinct, or the implicit.
1999, The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary MetropolisMarc Augé and Hans Ibelings are the influential emergent critics of what has come to be called "supermodernism"; see, respectively, Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Verso, 1995), and Ibelings, Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (NAI, 1998).
2008, Mark Kingwell, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City - uncountableExtreme modernism.
Existing modernism appeared to erode, then, in the face of this supermodernism, and at precisely the moment when art was taken most seriously―or at least, deemed too important to be left to the artist.
2000, J. Hoberman, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism2 more examples
Characterized by an excess of time, space and ego, all of which supervene on the present study in ways that distinguish its utilization of philosophy of religion from postmodern obsessions with social and literary philosophy, supermodernism can be introduced in the following manner […]
2012, Jaco Gericke, The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion, page 13Articulating this insight in every way possible seemed to define fin-de-millennium social theory in relation to the network society, the global city, the information bomb, sociology against society, supermodernism, and so on.
2016, Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, page 423
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