Niban-Kan 二番館 Architect: Minoru Takeyama 竹山実 Location: Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Japan Completion year: 1970
It gave us MI6's Thames-side temple, TV-am's eggcups and corporate icons aplenty. Now the power of postmodernism is celebrated in an exhibition at the V&A
Postmodernism (Foucault and Baudrillard) - Download as a PDF or view online for free
Hotel de Police, featuring Michelangelo’s Dying Slave in serial, Rue Rambouillet, Paris, Manuel Nunez Yanowsky, 1985-88
Postmodernism is much easier to understand if you develop first an understanding of modernism. So let’s begin there. The age of the ‘modern’ describes the period of changes to Western society that occurred during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Society was becoming largely industrial and cities were forming and multiplying. Modern thought is…
Abstract works using shapes and numbers are featured in “Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989,” at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Poster design for an exhibition on post-modern design at ‘Design Museum’ in ‘Shad Thames, London’.
From about 1970 to 1990, Postmodernism shattered established ideas about design and art.
As it turns out, philosophy is a lot more useful when you’re out in the real world rather than in a classroom.
history, discourse and discontinuity - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or view presentation slides online. article on michel foucault
Descriptive article on postmodernism and the church; it's effect on the church and society overall. Includes the definition, history, and the dangers it poses.
Research Modernism and Postmodernism
Michael Graves' pink and teal Portland Building is one of Postmodernism's most important examples – and also one of its most divisive
Mario Botta's monumental Postmodern San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was the architect's first building in the US, but was frostily received by critics
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A week to the day in which Norwegian design firm Snøhetta released their ambitious designs to modernize Phillip Johnson's Postmodern icon — the AT&T building in New York — Norman Foster has come out and added his name and gravity in support of the building protests against the proposed...
Sometimes it becomes important to save a building that doesn't seem to work, such as Michael Graves' Postmodernist Portland Building, says Alexandra Lange.
Thomson Consumer Electronics Americas Headquarters, Indianapolis, Indiana, Michael Graves & Haldeman, Powell & Partners, 1992 Michael Graves joined Haldeman, Powell & Partners after the initial buil…
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