Holistic and Atomic World Views and their Effects on the Architecture and Urbanism

odernism in architecture ~~'- and urbanism has a wide territory. Although, criticizing the "modernism" started decades ago, another running of thought has been challenging and replacing it at the same time: post-modernism. The origin of this view is rooted in recent philosophic as well as scientific developments. Therefore, postmodernism is not only a methodof criticism, it opens a new horizon in front of the ones who explores the world after modernism.In this essay, modernism and post - modernism world views have been compared and the impact of each one upon theoretical and practical basis has been considered. Eventually, we have to pass the modernism and enter the era of the post -modernism. From now on Architecture and Urbanism's development depends on their explaining and securitizing in this new movement.