ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN PLANNING PRACTICE
The genealogy of the term "postmodernism" goes back to the 1966 publication of
Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
The pursuit of architecture thus can be seen as a major substrate of the
origins of the postmodern sensibility in the period beginning around 1970.
Spatiality is central to postmodern critique. Urban planning, along with the
planning for buildings as such in the cityscape, takes us to that central
issue. To follow the practice of these disciplines is to follow one of the
critically important threads of postmodernism.
References from the World Wide Web
Marcos Novak, transUrban Optimism After The
Maul of America
Bibliographic References
Martin Filler. "Fantasia." Rev. of ICONOGRAPHY AND
ELECTRONICS UPON A GENERIC ARCHITECTURE, by Robert Venturi. The New York
Review of Books, 23 October 1997, p. 10ff.
References from the PROGRAMME
19 June 1997; updated 5 October 1997
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