Postmodernism is back. We see it in the slew of books and articles about the movement, in the campaigns to save some of its greatest landmarks such as Philip Johnson's AT&T building in New York, in ...

“Postmodernism” in architecture is regaining our attention. Already in 2016, James Stirling’s No. 1 Poultry complex in the City of London (designed in 1985, but not constructed until 1997) was listed ...

November is turning out to be Postmodernism Month in this column. Last week I tried to raise some alarm bells about a misguided new plan from architecture firm Snøhetta to remake Philip Johnson and ...

In November 1996, The New York Times published a list that I prepared of 35 landmarks-in-waiting—buildings scattered throughout the boroughs that, in my opinion, deserved to be designated and ...

Robert Venturi, the Philadelphia-based architect whose buildings and writings championed “messy vitality” above the rational order of Modernism, died last week at age 93. For generations of architects ...

Architecture is in a constant state of near-neurotic obsession over its past. So this month, when the American Institute of Architects decided not to name a winner for its annual Twenty-Five Year ...

A home in a wooded Seattle neighborhood was redesigned with Sea Ranch principles in mind, emphasizing natural materials and ...

History has often been taught in a linear way. This way of teaching has often left out grand historical narratives, and focused primarily on the occidental world. Which building is better, the duck or ...

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, his wife and professional partner, in the late 1960s at their office in Philadelphia. (George Pohl, Via the Architectural Archives / NYT) I learned to love ...

Some of you may remember when Memphis furniture and Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia (above) bounced into the world, reminding designers steeped in Braun-era minimalism and high-minded Modernist ...

Stern gained acclaim for his decades of work and style, which blended postmodernism with contextual design, drawing ...

The intellectual titan bestowed on us so many things, chief among them a reminder to Always Be Historicizing. The late literary and cultural critic.(Creative Commons) On Sunday, the literary theorist ...