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Postmodern Architecture
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The reaction against modernist austerity that gathered from the late 1960s, readmitting ornament, historical quotation, color and wit. Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture of 1966 was its founding text, answering the modernist slogan less is more with less is a bore; its landmarks include the Portland Building and the AT and T Building with its broken pediment top.
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PeriodNo clean end: rather than concluding, the movement fragmented in the late 1990s into successor tendencies (high-tech, neo-futurism, new classicism, deconstructivism), and some buildings designed after this period are still called postmodern. PeriodVenturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published 1966, is the conventional opening of the movement; its built landmarks followed in the late 1970s and 1980s. Origin Region Cross-Tradition Connections
Influenced By
Contextualism, Concepts Postmodern architecture's knowing quotation of neighboring buildings and streetscapes draws directly on contextualist doctrine.
Critiqued Here
Influence by reaction: the movement defined itself against modernist austerity.
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In the late 1990s, it divided into a multitude of new tendencies, including high-tech architecture, neo-futurism, new classical architecture, and deconstructivism.
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