Masters of their field, Stern and Gehry designed in very different styles as they broke with the status quo—one drawing on ...

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 ...

Oh, postmodernism. You are history now. This fall, architect Michael Graves classic (wait, can you say that about postmodernism?) 1982 Portland building was added to the US National Register of ...

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 ...

Architecture is in a constant state of near-neurotic obsession over its past. So this month, when the American Institute of Architects decided not to name a winner for its annual Twenty-Five Year ...

November is turning out to be Postmodernism Month in this column. Last week I tried to raise some alarm bells about a misguided new plan from architecture firm Snøhetta to remake Philip Johnson and ...

What Comes After Postmodern Architecture? A Conversation with Rafael Viñoly Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street New York Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30pm The recent building ...

Architect and designer Michael Graves has died at 80 of natural causes at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was perhaps best known for projects such as the Portland Municipal Services Building and ...

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 ...

The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing. The late literary and cultural critic.(Creative Commons) On Sunday, the literary theorist ...

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