Architects and Artisans

Three decades after the publication of Tom Wolfe’s seminal “From Bauhaus to Our House,” a major conference on Postmodern architecture is set for Nov. 11 and 12 in New York. “Reconsidering Postmodernism” features a roster jam-packed with participants sounding like a Who’s Who of architectural rockstars. A Friday afternoon panel discussion on “Postmodernism and the Media” will [...]

Almost as quickly as it arrived and changed our world, it promptly disappeared. But with a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, it’s time now to take a look back at postmodernism and its evolution from provocative architectural movement of the early 1970s – one that challenged the orthodoxies of modernism – [...]