Rhetoric of postmodernism architecture Authors Alexey Khudin ovgorod State Architectural and Construction University Downloads pdf (Русский) DOI: https://doi.org/10.51461/projectbaikal.66.1729 Keywords: postmodernism, architecture, rhetoric, semiotics of architecture Abstract This article analyzes the use of the theory of linguistics as applied to the theory of architecture and its rhetoric in particular. It attempts to interpret architecture in the period of postmodernism as a language and studies the notions of “topos” and “atopon” in the framework of the paradigm shift from the modern to the postmodern. The succession is viewed through the “topos” category as a speech complex, which expresses common narrative forms, “eternal topics” communicated from the past, and the invariants of the positioning relative to it in different paradigms. The article explains some of the key ideas of the theory of postmodern architecture. How to Cite Khudin, A. (2021). Rhetoric of postmodernism architecture. Project Baikal, 17(66), 126–131. https://doi.org/10.51461/projectbaikal.66.1729 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Published 2021-03-13 Issue No. 66 (2020): succession Section refereed articles License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Author Biography Alexey Khudin, ovgorod State Architectural and Construction University Ph.D. in Architecture, Ass. Professor of the Department of Architectural Design at Nizhny Novgorod State Architectural and Construction University (NNGASU) References Arendt, Н. (1966). The Origins Of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc. Curtius, E. R. (1972) Zum Begriffeines historischen Topik. Toposforschung: Eine Dokumentation. Frankfurt. Eco, U. (2006). Otsutstvuyushchaya struktura. Vvedenie v semiologiyu [Missing structure. Introduction to semiology]. Saint Petersburg: Symposium. Foucault, M. (1975). Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison. Paris: Editions Gallimard. Foucault, M. (1999). Nadzirat i nakazyvat. Rozhdenie tyurmy [Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison]. Moscow: Ad Marginem. Gadamer, H. (1991). Yazyk i ponimanie. Aktualnost prekrasnogo [Language and understanding. The relevance of the beautiful]. Moscow: Iskusstvo. Hryschko-Krakovski, М. F. (2008). The (Non)Site of Atopon Rhetorical Positivity, Hermeneutical Negativity and the Privative of World. Synthesis Philosophica, 23. Zevi, B. (1978). The Modern Language of Architecture. Canberra: Australian National University Press.