Posted Nov 7, 2017, 1:46 AM
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Those are only examples of a particular strain of post-modernism.
Unlike the modern movement, the post-modern movement was reactionary to a kind of rigour and simplicity which it argued went too far, leaving too many avenues of meaning out of architecture's vocabulary. As such, it was a movement which favoured (according to its own conception) both complexity and multiplicity. That meant that it was a broad and diverse school of design: there are many forms of post-modernism: these examples of Graves, etc., the intellectual formal puzzlings of Eisenman & Libeskind, Gehry, the Japanese postmodernists, the postmodern classicism of Stern, later Safdie (incl. our main Library), and so on. This project easily fits into this range.
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