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Anonymous asked:

It's a shame to me that you don't treasure the delights of Post Modernism. It showed that architects creating fun, celebratory work was okay and that history wasn't a four letter word. It also acknowledged a basic human appreciation for color, pattern, humor, wit and of course fun. Me thinks you drank too much of the architecture intelligentsia Kool Aid.

archatlas answered:

Just like its a shame you cannot accept my opinion without accusing me of being brain washed. I have been working on architectural offices for the last 30 years, I lived PoMo not from the sidelines but from the field. I disliked it then and I dislike it now. 

IN MY OPINION architecture can have color, pattern, humor, wit and fun without becoming a joke, and that is what PoMo did to architecture. Like every style and fashion trend if enough time goes by it becomes fashionable again but the ideals, the foundation of PoMo is the problem, instead of moving architectural design forward they became little more than revivalists using modern technology. 

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Town Hall in Borgoricco Aldo Rossi

I don’t hate all PoMo buildings and could ague that Aldo Rossi and Mario Botta, for example, reached moments of sublime beauty in PoMo architecture but most work produced later in the style became a joke reaching the inevitable conclusion of most architects rejecting what the PoMo stood for.

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San Giovanni Battista Church Mario Botta

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