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Po-Mo
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en postmodernism.
en 1999 The Architects' Journal - Volume 209 22 Describing his design as 'an eclectic composition', he had not yet heard of Post-Modernism, but this project featured in an exhibition on the subject. Andreas Papadakis, who took over the magazine Architectural Design in the 1970s and published many of the pioneers of Po-Mo, said: 'The true revolution of the 1970s was a revolution of ideas'. Papadakis asserted that: 'The battle of Po-Mo has been won.
en 2010 Defined by a Hollow Darko Suvin 3039114034 In perhaps the only useful instrument Po-Mo has left us, it is indispensable that the spiral be there as a model but it is also indispensable that it be "under erasure" - as it is in Marx, who simultaneously expects collapse of capitalism and works for revolution.
en 2014 London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer's Guide Ken Allinson; Victoria Thornton 46 1317690451 This includes a demonstration that Po-Mo can also be structurally acrobatic (here, in the manner the bulding spans across London Wall).
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en postmodern.
en 1995 Blue Mesa Review, No Six David Johnson; Rudolfo A. Anaya 210 1885290055 If anyone should edit a book of Po-Mo texts ("innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics, and various unclassifiable texts written by the most radical, subversive literary talents of the postmodern new wave") it's probably Larry McCaffery, and his Avant-Pop: Fiction For A Daydream Nation (Fiction Collective Two, $7) doesn't disappoint.
en 1999 Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-2000 Douglass Shand-Tucci 357 1558492011 Nothing could be less Po-Mo, or more elegant, something project architect Bruce Wood was quick to point to when I raised the issue of how differently one might detail this sort of "veneer" brick wall from the old-fashioned fully structural kind: between Kallmann's point and Wood's are a host of issues thoughtful architects like KMW can be depended upon to work through on every job.
en 1999 River Styx - Issues 54-57 61 Po-Mo art critics express sarcastic nostalgia for his allegorical frescoes.