Postmodern architecture abandons the centered human perspective built into modernity.

Evidence

For Gehry the world vanishes to a multitude of points, and he does not presuppose that any are related to the standing human being. The human eye is still of critical importance in Gehry’s world, but the sense of center no longer has its traditional symbolic value. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 298

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the death of the centered bourgeois ego / subject in the book’s larger thesis about postmodernism. — connects to: Industrial-era art loses its concrete human center as elements disperse into contingency. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 346; Postmodernity abandons modern difference while retaining its technological infrastructure. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 832; Postmodern city space lost its modernist sense of place and situatedness. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 308 (+6 more)
• DEFINE: Contrasts postmodern decentering with the traditional symbolic value of the centered eye.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Industrial-era art loses its concrete human center as elements disperse into contingency. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 346; Postmodernity abandons modern difference while retaining its technological infrastructure. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 832; Postmodern city space lost its modernist sense of place and situatedness. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 308 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Two further positions reject the modern-postmodern break, dissolving postmodernism into modernism #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 185
• Postmodern architecture’s surface fascination masks underlying conflicts between place-rootedness and cosmopolitan style. #complicates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 548