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Not sure about the rest of the world, but in the southwest, LA to Phoenix, the modernism of Bauhaus has more sway in contemporary starchitecture than post-moder
by tgrass 14y ago
Not sure about the rest of the world, but in the southwest, LA to Phoenix, the modernism of Bauhaus has more sway in contemporary starchitecture than post-modernism.
- eternalban 14y agoBecause it is more profitable to build identical cookie cutter artifacts. Postmodernism (in architecture) was an academic reactionary movement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi [p.s.: This is the seminal critical retort that started it: http://designtheory.fiu.edu/readings/venturi_complexity_complete.pdf http://designtheory.fiu.edu/readings/venturi_complexity_comp...]
- nickpinkston 14y agoThough, for interior design, I think that more humanizing post-modern styles tend to be far more pervasive, but as mentioned the buildings don't work super well - Bauhaus did manufacturability right.