And it has something to do with the post-modernist design of the building. Post-modernist architecture is a design of buildings whose main feature is a lack of formality or harmony. Robert ...

“Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths,” curated by Sylvia Lavin, a Princeton University architectural historian. “At the 50-year mark, things shift from the present into history ...

Installation view of Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths at the CCA. Photo by Sandra Larochelle Conversely, Lavin does not include much work that I would call “high” postmodern. There is ...

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In 1944 Venturi began to study architecture at Princeton ... In later years he would insist that “I am not now and have never been a postmodernist.” Ironic detachment, as it happens, is stony ground ...

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Following an announcement by Historic England yesterday, the country will grant preservation orders to 17 Postmodernist ... of renewed enthusiasm for PoMo architecture in Britain, with the first ...

A playful sense of irony defines Portoghesi’s work and best explains his role as a pioneer of Italy’s postmodernist movement. In 1980, he spearheaded the creation of the first Venice Architecture ...

And the depressing legacy of the postmodernist architecture that Venturi pioneered has become all too obvious — suburban tracts of ugly, neo-eclectic houses and uninspired office buildings.