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 ...

Oh, postmodernism. You are history now. This fall, architect Michael Graves classic (wait, can you say that about postmodernism?) 1982 Portland building was added to the US National Register of ...

Remember postmodern architecture? Those patchwork buildings with bits of classical decoration and bright colors that were all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s? Think of the AT&T Building with its ...

In this reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the 20th century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical ...

Earlier this year, preservationists sounded the alarm when it appeared that the interiors of the United Nations Plaza Hotel—specifically, the postmodern designs created by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo ...

Postmodern architecture is a rare and diminishing breed in New York City. There's Philip Johnson's Sony tower, mid-conversion to pricey condos; the endangered Ambassador Grill at the United Nations ...

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 ...

Why do fashions in architecture change so often? Buildings, after all, last longer than jeans. But they seem to go in and out of vogue almost as quickly. The question comes to mind because of a couple ...

You wouldn't know it by the latest batch of streamlined glass towers on Asian skylines, but I'm guessing postmodern architecture is poised for a revival, or at least a second look. A major London ...