Postmodernism

Audio from the National Building Museum

Series: Architecture 101
Date Recorded: August 7, 2010
Duration: 01:24:38

The Postmodern movement in architecture embraced “wit, ornament, and historical reference” in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism. Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, architect, planner, professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, and author of the “Shaping the City” column in The Washington Post, draws on his years of writing to discuss this reactionary approach to architecture.

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