This week we learned about postmodernism and the many examples it can appear in. One of these examples was architecture. For my show and tell I looked up on Google images post-modernistic architecture, during this search I found many interesting buildings in various shapes and forms. One that stood out the most to me was the Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Opera House is probably the biggest examples of postmodern architecture and is known around the world for its odd looking shape. At first glance you may say the Sydney Opera House looks like a ship of some sort. I think the main reason for this is the sail shaped rooftop. I'm no expert on the building itself however another reason I can tell some people may think the Opera House is a boat is because it looks like it is floating on top of the water.
Information on The Sydney Opera House was easy to find compared to some of the other buildings I looked at. The Opera House was started in 1959 and was completed in 1973. The main events that are held there are opera and large orchestra concerts.
The reason I think this building is a form of postmodernism is because it criticizes everything about what we picture "regular" buildings as. The ways this building does this is by rethinking the whole shape of a normal building, The Sydney Opera House is configured by the mostly cylindrical construct. The other popping way this building achieves its status as postmodern is how the roof is shaped by many fan looking appendages. Overall I think this piece of architecture is extremely post-modernistic and certainly the most famous example of this.
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