Postmodern, the Architecture of the Post-industrial Society
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"Those who fear a wave of permissiveness would do well to remember that the ironic use of quotation and the archaeological artifact as an objet trouvé are discoveries of the figurative avant-garde of the twenties --that have landed on the island of architecture sixty years late." --Postmodern, the Architecture of the Post-industrial Society (1982) by Paolo Portoghesi "That postmodern theses have deep roots in the present human condition is confirmed today in the document on architecture issued by the Polish union Solidarity. This text accuses the modern city of being the product of an alliance between bureaucracy and totalitarianism, and singles out the great error of modern architecture in the break of historical continuity. Solidarity’s words should be meditated upon, especially by those who have confused a great movement of collective consciousness [postmodernism] with a passing fashion." --Postmodern, the Architecture of the Post-industrial Society (1982) by Paolo Portoghesi |
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Postmodern, the Architecture of the Post-industrial Society (1982, Italian: Postmodern. L'architettura nella società postindustriale) is a book by Paolo Portoghesi.
The book is cited in A Poetics of Postmodernism (1988).
Blurb:
In these illustrated essays Portoghesi offers a critical profile of the postmodern movement and explains why it constitutes a decisive turning point in the history of architecture. He reconstructs the theoretical intentions of postmodern architects, analyzes the important projects by Philip Johnson, Michael Graves, Thomas Beeby, Stanley Tigerman, Helmut Jahn, Ricardo Bofill, Massimo Scolari and others.
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