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 ...

The architect and theorist Robert Venturi played an important role in the history of the field as one of the first authors to write on the subject of postmodernism in his book Complexity and ...

Postmodern architecture is a style of building design that emerged in the ’70s and ’80s as a reaction against the dogmas and ideals of modernism and the international style. “It saw a whole range of ...

While scandal doesn’t hit architects quite as often as, say, politicians, the architecture profession is not immune from controversy, fraud, and even cold-blooded murder. The distinguished field has ...

"DISNEYLAND is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real," wrote French sociologist Jean Baudrillard in 1981, "when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America ...

The Secret Intelligence Service building in Vauxhall, designed by Sir Terry Farrell - Tim Ireland/PA Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw died within two weeks of each other in September. At last they ...

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 ...

Making enterprise architecture happen isn’t easy. “Once upon a time, the bad news was nobody had enterprise architectures,” said Gene Leganza, vice president of Forrester Research's public-sector ...

Modern architecture, emerging in the 1930s and thriving through the 1970s, revolutionized building design by focusing on functionality and human living rather than ornamental beauty. As ...