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 ...
Learn how Postmodern architects used irony and symbolism to redefine architecture's role in a changing urban landscape.
Over the last few decades, a new wave of attractive Postmodern buildings have sprung up across the Bronx. Although they are little known outside the borough, these distinctive structures have joined ...
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 ...
A new exhibition devoted to postmodern British architecture is designed to spark a revival of interest in the movement. The exhibition titled The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British ...
In November 1996, The New York Times published a list that I prepared of 35 landmarks-in-waiting—buildings scattered throughout the boroughs that, in my opinion, deserved to be designated and ...
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 ...
November is turning out to be Postmodernism Month in this column. Last week I tried to raise some alarm bells about a misguided new plan from architecture firm Snøhetta to remake Philip Johnson and ...
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 ...
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 ...
His writings announced the death of Modernism, and the public spaces he designed were full of adventurous shapes and ideas. By Neil Genzlinger Charles Jencks, whose writing on architecture helped ...