Supermodernism

Quick meaning: Supermodernism is a noun meaning (architecture) An architectural style following modernism and postmodernism, promoted by Hans Ibelings.

Meaning

(architecture) An architectural style following modernism and postmodernism, promoted by Hans Ibelings.

More Meanings

1. Extreme modernism.

Example Sentences

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.

Articulating 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.

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.

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 […]

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Related dictionary entries include hypermodernism, archmodernist, ultramodernism, postmodernism, metamodernism, hypermodernist.

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