Postmodernist collage as a method for regeneration of public spaces

Abstract

Today's times are characterized by an unprecedented emancipation of creative searches, liberation from canons and stereotypes, a fundamental rejection of the traditions of creativity according to one model, a transition to creativity by «intuition» based on the conditions of a specific order, location, capabilities and desires. The modern architect is preoccupied with the creative search for his «element A» (according to K. Malevich), his creative method, which could indicate the path to creating a new form, a new artistic image. The individualistic principle, together with the desire to achieve unique originality in each new work, and at the same time the desire to accommodate cultural and artistic archetypes of various other eras in one volume-spatial architectural object or in a fragment of the urban architectural environment, adding new reinvented meanings to them and through this achieving architectural and artistic integrity directs us to search for new methods of creating diversity and uniqueness. The new method of «Postmodern Collage» now provides such creative possibilities.