Postmodern space emerges only from the dialectical collision of old and new architectural forms

Evidence

We have essentially rewritten Macrae-Gibson’s enumeration of three types of space (traditional rooms, the newer living spaces, and the cube and corrugated wall) into a dynamic model in which two very distinct kinds of space — the bedroom and the abstract architectural forms that open up the older house — intersect to produce new kinds of space (the kitchen and dining area, the living room), space that includes old and new, inside and outside, the framed platforms of the older house and the reconstituted yet strangely amorphous areas between the frame and the wrapper. It is essentially only this last type of space — the result of a dialectical engagement between the two others — which can be characterized as postmodern; that is to say, as some radically new spatiality beyond the traditional and the modern alike which seems to make some historical claim for radical difference and originality. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 311

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the postmodern spatial category as a dialectical product, not one of the two base types.
• XREF: connects to: Late modern and postmodern architecture differ on allusion to the past — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 61; Jencks defined postmodern architecture as stylistic double-coding of old and new, high and low — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 61; Postmodern architecture rejected utopian planning in favor of market-driven spontaneity — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 59 (+1 more)