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 ...
His writings announced the death of Modernism, and the public spaces he designed were full of adventurous shapes and ideas. By Neil Genzlinger Charles Jencks, whose writing on architecture helped ...
Can modern buildings − or, more accurately, Postmodern buildings − be historic? Wisconsin officials are considering that question. Their answer could determine the future of a largely empty downtown ...
UPDATE 11/28/17: On Tuesday morning, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) moved swiftly to calendar an application to landmark the exteriors of 550 Madison Avenue. This marks the first ...
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 ...
November is turning out to be Postmodernism Month in this column. Last week I tried to raise some alarm bells about a misguided new plan from architecture firm Snøhetta to remake Philip Johnson and ...
Snøhetta’s redesign will bring a two-story glass curtain wall to the base of the postmodern stone building. DBOX Snøhetta’s proposal to update the postmodern office building at 550 Madison Avenue ...
A popular Twitter thread showcases the continuing presence of strikingly whimsical postmodern architecture in Japan. Adam Nathaniel Furman, an artist and graphic designer based in London, UK, created ...
This forthcoming book on the work of recently deceased Italian architect, theorist, and historian Paolo Portoghesi will be published in November as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern ...
Oh, postmodernism. You are history now. This fall, architect Michael Graves classic (wait, can you say that about postmodernism?) 1982 Portland building was added to the US National Register of ...
A new exhibition devoted to postmodern British architecture is designed to spark a revival of interest in the movement. The exhibition titled The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British ...