Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw died within two weeks of each other in September. At last they had something in common ...

As Britain’s contentious Postmodern architecture comes of age, the rebellious style is attracting a new generation of admirers. Best known for its striking shapes and bright colors, the eclectic ...

In this reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the 20th century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical ...

Postmodernism is back. We see it in the slew of books and articles about the movement, in the campaigns to save some of its greatest landmarks such as Philip Johnson’s AT&T building in New York, in ...

Fans of postmodern architecture, rejoice: Today, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to landmark the lobby and the Ambassador Grill within the United Nations Plaza Hotel (now known ...

Robert Venturi, the Philadelphia-based architect whose buildings and writings championed “messy vitality” above the rational order of Modernism, died last week at age 93. For generations of architects ...

Remember postmodern architecture? Those patchwork buildings with bits of classical decoration and bright colors that were all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s? Think of the AT&T Building with its ...

Earlier this year, preservationists sounded the alarm when it appeared that the interiors of the United Nations Plaza Hotel—specifically, the postmodern designs created by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo ...

History has often been taught in a linear way. This way of teaching has often left out grand historical narratives, and focused primarily on the occidental world. Which building is better, the duck or ...

You wouldn't know it by the latest batch of streamlined glass towers on Asian skylines, but I'm guessing postmodern architecture is poised for a revival, or at least a second look. A major London ...