From Postmodern to Neomodern The United States and Europe

Between 1965 and 1985, much of the European and American public turned away from modern architecture. Gradually, the architectural profession returned to the temporarily discredited paradigms, and the public has slowly followed. The reasons that modernism’s original emphasis on technology, as revive...

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Published in:	Architecture Since 1400 p. 456
Main Author:	Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	United States University of Minnesota Press 01-01-2014
Subjects:	Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied arts Applied sciences Architectural design Architecture Art genres and movements Art history Arts Behavioral sciences Buildings Cities Civil engineering Cultural anthropology Cultural customs Engineering Ethnography Ethnology Harbors Human geography Jewish architecture Jewish culture Jewish studies Marine engineering Marine structures Memorials Metropolitan areas Modernist art Moorings Political geography Port structures Ports Postmodern art Residential buildings Social sciences Urban studies Urbanism War memorials
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Summary:	Between 1965 and 1985, much of the European and American public turned away from modern architecture. Gradually, the architectural profession returned to the temporarily discredited paradigms, and the public has slowly followed. The reasons that modernism’s original emphasis on technology, as revived in the megastructural movement of the 1960s, fell out of favor included its association of industry and engineering with progress. That idea faded as people became more concerned about what is now known as sustainability and was then termed the environment. Both industrial and engineering imagery had come to stand for economic and civic institutions that were increasingly
ISBN:	0816673977 9780816673971