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 ...
Sir Terry Farrell at his London home that used to be a Spitfire factory - Martin Pope Sir Terry Farrell, who has died aged 87, was a British architect and urban designer who over a career of some 50 ...
This forthcoming book on the work of recently deceased Italian architect, theorist, and historian Paolo Portoghesi will be published in November as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern ...
Some of you may remember when Memphis furniture and Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia (above) bounced into the world, reminding designers steeped in Braun-era minimalism and high-minded Modernist ...
British architect John Outram is a difficult talent to pin down. In some senses, he is the perfect (and perhaps the last) postmodernist. In others, he is a brightly colored bird from a different genus ...
"DISNEYLAND is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real," wrote French sociologist Jean Baudrillard in 1981, "when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America ...
Our campus is built around a cathedral. Walk down blocks of healthy palms, stroll along the grassy oval and climb the sandstone steps. Stroll past despairing statues, proud pillars and sloped clay ...
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 ...
A new generation of architects is arguing that postmodern cityscapes deserve re-evaluation. By Rob Madole Growing up in Dallas, I saw the city as an architectural wasteland. It had some beautiful art ...