Postmodernism is back. We see it in the slew of books and articles about the movement, in the campaigns to save some of its greatest landmarks such as Philip Johnson's AT&T building in New York, in ...
Oh, postmodernism. You are history now. This fall, architect Michael Graves classic (wait, can you say that about postmodernism?) 1982 Portland building was added to the US National Register of ...
Robert Venturi, the Philadelphia-based architect whose buildings and writings championed “messy vitality” above the rational order of Modernism, died last week at age 93. For generations of architects ...
“Postmodernism” in architecture is regaining our attention. Already in 2016, James Stirling’s No. 1 Poultry complex in the City of London (designed in 1985, but not constructed until 1997) was listed ...
Written by AD Editorial Team Published on July 16, 2015 This article is part of ArchDaily Essentials, a series of articles which give you an overview of architecture's most important topics by ...
A popular Twitter thread showcases the continuing presence of strikingly whimsical postmodern architecture in Japan. Adam Nathaniel Furman, an artist and graphic designer based in London, UK, created ...
Fans of postmodern architecture, rejoice: Today, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to landmark the lobby and the Ambassador Grill within the United Nations Plaza Hotel (now known ...
We were hoping for it to happen in the early 2000s. We saw it coming with the opening of the exhibition “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 – 1990” at the V&A in London in 2011. But now, after ...
In this reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the 20th century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical ...
Can modern buildings − or, more accurately, Postmodern buildings − be historic? Wisconsin officials are considering that question. Their answer could determine the future of a largely empty downtown ...
When Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was published 50 years ago, Vincent Scully announced in the introduction that it was “probably the most important writing on the ...
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