"Post Modern Architecture: The Solution?"

Basically the development of the architecture leads to better improvement than ever before because it is an essential essence of development. In the development of the history of the world of architecture, post modern architecture is a style or style of architecture that is considered to be a solution of the problems on previous architectural styles. The problem is diverse, about the environment, local culture and the efficiency of development and material. Especially on the issue of local culture, modern architecture is the initiator against modern architecture that has mengseragamkan world of architecture.

If we searched, the postmodern meaning itself stems from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-modern that Postmodernism is a general and broad term applied to many disciplines, including literature, art, economics, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to scientific or objective efforts to explain reality. Postmodernism tends to be defined either as a period after modernism or as a 'condition' where the established value is quickly eroded by new technological advances and the general concern about what the future will bring. Basically, postmodernism is based on the position that reality is not reflected in human understanding, but rather constructed as the mind tries to understand its personal reality. Therefore postmodernism is a skeptical explanation that claims to apply to all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, rather than focusing on the relative truths of each person or in their respective paradigms, thus having a relativistic view of reality. In postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything, reality is only formed through our interpretation of what the world means for us personally. Postmodernism relies on a concrete experience of abstract principles, arguing that the outcome of one's own experience would be erroneous and relative, not certain or universal.

Postmodernism is generally considered to have been composed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Postmodernism gained significant popularity in the 1950s and literature and art was dominated by the 1960s Postmodernism has influenced many disciplines, including religion, literary criticism, sociology, ethics and morality, linguistics, architecture, history, politics, international relations, anthropology, art visual, and music.

In that sense, it is said that the postmodern is a period after modernism or as a 'condition' where the established value is quickly eroded by new technological advances and general concern about what the future will bring. Basically, postmodernism is based on the position that reality is not reflected in human understanding, but rather constructed as the mind tries to understand its personal reality. In Indonesia itself, post-modern architecture has existed since 1970-1n, through the views and works of Y.B. Mangunwijaya. However, the realization of post-modern architecture in Indonesia tends to focus on figurativism. The evidence is seen in the Surabaya Plaza Plaza and Atmajaya University Building.

The concept of postmodern itself is to update and be the solution of the problems that occur in desai moder. The application of post-modern architecture in Indonesia itself is just a popularity of the global architecture. It is real if we think that postmodern architecture should look more at the side of local culture, the evolving science, the material technology and the efficiency of the development that all of this combines to create a post-modern architecture. Well, right now is this post-modern architecture can be a solution if it just follows the popularity of world architecture ?. This only returns the architecture in the International Style era which all become uniform.

Supposedly, Indonesia is able to create post-modern architecture with the uniqueness of Indonesia itself. That's the essence of post-modern. Indonesian architecture must be able to recognize its identity and integrate with science and technology and efficiency so that we are able to build a post-modern architecture of Indonesia. We do not need to imitate what has been pioneered by the pioneer of post-moder architecture from his designing style. What we are obliged to imitate is the philosophy or concept promoted by the pioneer because here we will see the original form of post-modern.

Postmodern architecture forever will not be a solution for architects if the only way to see its popularity without understanding the concept that really fit in the local area. In fact, this post-modern architectural concept is very keen to represent the cultural here iala traditional architecture or vernacular with the development of today which has advanced in terms of science and technology. This is expected by the pioneers of post-modern architecture. The post-modern figures of Robert Venturi (1966), Charles Jencks (1977-1992), Heinrich Klotz (1988) and Kisho Kurokawa (1991).

In post-modern architecture, there is a rationale of the post-modern architecture itself that carries the architecture is not monotonous, not uniform and create a village with new characteristics. In post-modern architecture also, architects can think as creative as possible in designing with attention to aesthetics, function and strength. But, this post-modern should not create a new teaching that knows no bounds. Whatever it is, it has its limits. Postmodern understanding itself has resulted in human beings have been immersed in creations that go far beyond what has been taught to religion in the holy book. This results in the loss of faith and religion. Yet from the function of religion itself to regulate the life of human beings to lead to true happiness. Therefore, post-modern in this post-modern architecture is to be the solution of modern architecture by offering uniqueness of building, science and technology, as well as high creativity. But this should not make us apart from the aqidah, where we are against the religion that we profess.

In conclusion, post-modern architecture is the solution if we are able to understand the concept and its philosophy in the design of our building. Postmodern architecture is not followed only to pursue the populatity of the world-wide architecture but post-modern architecture is followed so that there is no uniformity in architecture that worsens from the essence of the architecture itself. Creativity is high but there must be boundaries. This is important because it is to live a terartur and this has been taught in religion.