The Passing of Post-Modernism: Cultural Influences in Design

Zwirn, Robert. "The Passing of Post-Modernism: Cultural Influences in Design." In National Forum 76.2, The Phi Kappa Phi Journal (Spring 1996): 13-15 (sic: dual title).

Post-Modernism (sic) in architecture is out; deconstruction is in. Very useful for quoting and putting into the context of modernism and postmodernism in architecture Le Corbusier's modernist "notion of the house 'as a machine for living'" (14). Note comment on how in the 1990s USA "the disenfranchised have been relegated to the decaying modernist suburbs" and "the vernacular of the inner cities has become the gentrified and dandified home of the new rich (15) — cf. Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's Gladiator-at-Law (Ballantine 1955, rpt. Baen 1986), where such a world is prefigured.

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