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Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. [1]
Architectural style • Architecture timeline: 1900–present. 6000BC–1000AD • 1000–1750 • 1750–1900 • 1900–Present
Cistercian Gothic 1138–15th century [3] (various European countries) Angevin Gothic or Plantagenet Style since 1148 (western France) Early English Period c. 1190–c. 1250; Gotico Angioiano since 1266 (southern Italy) Decorated Period c. 1290–c. 1350; Perpendicular Period c. 1350–c. 1550; Rayonnant Gothic 1240–c. 1350 (France, Germany ...
This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including structural engineering, landscape architecture, and city planning. One significant architectural achievement is listed for each year.
His magnum opus, however, is the book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, first published in 1977, and since running to seven editions [87] (in which he famously wrote: "Modern architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on 15 July 1972 at 3:32 p.m. (or thereabouts) when the infamous Pruitt–Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab ...
Postmodern architecture in the United States (14 C, 46 P) This page was last edited on 24 September 2019, at 17:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The architecture of ancient Rome has been one of the most influential in the world. Its legacy is evident throughout the medieval and early modern periods, and Roman buildings continue to be reused in the modern era in both New Classical and Postmodern architecture. It was particularly influenced by Greek and Etruscan styles.
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture, published in 2011, was the last book by Charles Jencks. Jencks discusses the history of Post-modernism, especially in the fields of art and architecture during the last five decades (since 1960). [ 1 ]