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Robert Venturi: a postmodernist pioneer

Robert Venturi is one of the most original and notable architects from the late 20th century Regarded by many as the founder of postmodenrist architecture,

Architecture
Postmodernism: The flamboyant rejection of Modernism

Postmodernism: The flamboyant rejection of Modernism

Isle of Dogs Pumping Station.Photo by Reading Tom via Flickr Popular between the 1970s and 90s, postmodern architecture featured houses with curving forms, bright colours

Design

A new book expands the purview of postmodernism, one of architecture’s most misunderstood movements

Michael Graves: Team Disney Building, Burbank, California, USA, 1986. Picture credit: © Michael Graves Architecture & Design Alamy Stock Photo From brutalism to the neo-shingle

Architecture

Five big ideas that changed design

Ideas are at the heart of design and central to the development of different movements. We take a look at a new book that celebrates

Design

Robert Venturi’s ‘Ghost Houses’ are playful reminder of the great architect’s continuing influence

Franklin Court ‘Ghost Houses’, Central Philadelphia Photograph by Mark Cohn. Courtesy of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. Robert Venturi’s Philadelphia ghost houses barely count

Design

Why the revival of post-modernism is a sign of the times

The revival of postmodernism is more than next-generation nostalgia. It reflects a society, economy and entire political system in a profound state of flux writes

Architecture

Denise Scott Brown: As influential as ever at 86

All photos from the archive of Denise Scott Brown As a new exhibition of Denise Scott Brown’s photographic efforts opens in London, Icon considers why

Architecture

Long live the starchitect!

Peter Smisek on why this much-maligned group matters, and should continue to No one likes being called a starchitect. Especially anyone who, by all accounts,

Opinion

Postmodernism

The mood was set nicely. The busker in the subway that connects South Kensington underground station to the V&A was playing Rick Astley’s Never Gonna

Opinion

What We Learned

Images of Las Vegas by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. The photos are part of a tourning exhibitionl, on show at the Museum of

Opinion

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Design London makes LDF debut this September

Panoptikum Collections and Valery Kuznetsov put a quirky spin on storage design with their new launch BUGS

How Finland’s great chair designer Yrjö Kukkapuro modelled his designs on casts of his own body

MAD Architects transform old riverfront warehouse into new Rotterdam Danshuis

New exhibition Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design at Chatsworth is now open

With Fieldhouse MoDus Architects rethink architecture to create social value

Marsèll and Carsten Nicolai invite viewers to explore the unknown with new installation Transmitter / Receiver

What the fight for inclusion needs in 2023

From the Archive: A short history of the iconic Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen

Bell Phillips Architects on public-driven projects and making a difference in architecture




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MAD Architects transform old riverfront warehouse into new Rotterdam Danshuis

With Fieldhouse MoDus Architects rethink architecture to create social value

Bell Phillips Architects on public-driven projects and making a difference in architecture

Woodland cabins about an hour from Helsinki set out to provide luxury in a pared-back rural style

The VDL House built by Richard Neutra can now be seen from all over the world

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Photographer Elina Brotherus makes herself at home in the Didrichsen Art Museum

The four-roof pavilion is a pastel-toned urban hideaway in the heart of Shenzhen

Reed Watts unveils 78 affordable homes for Pocket Living in East London


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Panoptikum Collections and Valery Kuznetsov put a quirky spin on storage design with their new launch BUGS

How Finland’s great chair designer Yrjö Kukkapuro modelled his designs on casts of his own body

New exhibition Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design at Chatsworth is now open

Marsèll and Carsten Nicolai invite viewers to explore the unknown with new installation Transmitter / Receiver

What the fight for inclusion needs in 2023

From the Archive: A short history of the iconic Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen

The sixth edition of COLLECTIBLE brings together the best in contemporary design

From the Archive: A short history of Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair

Aalto University graduate Irene Purasachit creates practical new products from discarded flower waste


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