Modernism Post-Modernism Transmodernism

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.. Modernism Post-Modernism Trans-Modernism
Form language Linear (abstraction,repetition) Fragmented/emegent (scripts, parametricism) Differentiation, pattern
Social agenda Altruism (naive) Cynicism, irony Capacity-building
Schema Top-down Intuitive Bottom-up/inductive pattern/combination
Artistic regine Industrial romantic sculptural Integrative (art/life)
Technology Elementary industrial Post-industrial/Fordist Biological/biophilic
Best practice methodology Ex-cathedra theory Deconstruction methods Evidence-based design
Guiding concepts Rationalism Irony Biophilia/biomimicry
Economics Socialist (top-down) Capitalist (ironic) Jacobsian (feedback systems, Mechanism design theory)
Philosophy Platonic [1] Post-structuralism Symmetric structuralist [2]
  1. ↑ See Salingaros and Mehaffy, "Geometrical Structuralism"
  2. ↑ There is a structure we can manage, because it is comprehensible. But there are limits - and powers - of language that we must understand so as to take full advantage. Language is a structure in nature, like any other (and more pervasive than we thought). This is its power, to address our challenges and enrich our experiences. See e.g. http://athensdialogues.chs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/athensdialogues.woa/45/wo/GjfKilUtZqFHjV7nh1pBO0/3.0.0.47.1.5.15.1.1.1.0.1
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