As Britain’s contentious Postmodern architecture comes of age, the rebellious style is attracting a new generation of admirers. Best known for its striking shapes and bright colors, the eclectic ...
Dezeen takes a look inside Charles Jencks' postmodernist masterpiece The Cosmic House in this video produced by Dezeen.
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 ...
Remember postmodern architecture? Those patchwork buildings with bits of classical decoration and bright colors that were all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s? Think of the AT&T Building with its ...
History has often been taught in a linear way. This way of teaching has often left out grand historical narratives, and focused primarily on the occidental world. Which building is better, the duck or ...
Why do fashions in architecture change so often? Buildings, after all, last longer than jeans. But they seem to go in and out of vogue almost as quickly. The question comes to mind because of a couple ...
Elevated 8 feet from the ground, the wood-frame Rayburn House was greatly influenced by a 1981 residence by Herzog & de ...
You wouldn't know it by the latest batch of streamlined glass towers on Asian skylines, but I'm guessing postmodern architecture is poised for a revival, or at least a second look. A major London ...
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 ...
Architecture is in a constant state of near-neurotic obsession over its past. So this month, when the American Institute of Architects decided not to name a winner for its annual Twenty-Five Year ...
Architect and designer Michael Graves has died at 80 of natural causes at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was perhaps best known for projects such as the Portland Municipal Services Building and ...