Tag: Post-Modernism
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My favourite modernist building … Symonds St Flats, Auckland
I first discovered the elegant curve of the Symonds St Flats in the early 1980s
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Michael Graves – PoMo gone to the grave
Too soon for bad-taste comments? Sorry Michael – I never knew you at all, but with a name like Graves you’ve probably had those jokes all your life. A life which has just ended – yes, sadly, the world’s greatest Post-Modern architect has, like the architectural style that he helped spawn, passed away. Far be…
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The Death of Post-Modernism
# CommentThey say that you never forget where you were, or what you were doing, when a major event happens – Man Walking on the Moon, John F Kennedy’s assassination, the destruction of the Twin Towers, or the All Blacks winning the World Cup (in the case of myself, and I suspect many of us, it…