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 ...
“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 ...
Dezeen takes a look inside Charles Jencks' postmodernist masterpiece The Cosmic House in this video produced by Dezeen.
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 ...
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, his wife and professional partner, in the late 1960s at their office in Philadelphia. (George Pohl, Via the Architectural Archives / NYT) I learned to love ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing. The late literary and cultural critic.(Creative Commons) On Sunday, the literary theorist ...
The architecture writer and landscape designer Charles Jencks, who died earlier this week aged 80, was one of those rare theorists who put their ideas into concrete action. Born in Baltimore in 1939, ...