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The Epic of Postmodernism

Name: The Epic of Postmodernism
Author: Imad Darouich

ملحمة ما بعد الحداثة

Postmodern architecture as the city's answer to repeated glass boxes: history returns, buildings speak and laugh, and color comes back, through Robert Venturi, the AT&T Building, the Portland Building, Piazza d'Italia and Las Vegas, and the price of that freedom.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Ideas & Philosophy

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About This Book

Postmodernism arrives when glass and steel repeat themselves until different cities look alike, and the book follows the question that rose against that sameness. History returns as quotation, buildings learn to speak, colour comes back and contradiction stops being a sin, through Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Philip Johnson and John Burgee's AT&T Building, Michael Graves's Portland Building and Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia. Learning from Las Vegas and the idea of a building that speaks to more than one audience lead to the price of that freedom, when history became a mask. The book ends with a movement that rebelled against forgetting the past and reminded the city that it is more than an equation.

But history was no longer a sacred copy.

Contradiction is not always chaos.

It rebelled against forgetting it.

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