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Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Mon Oct 11 13:41:24 CDT 1999



On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> <<Has postmodernism perhaps run its course? I notice in architecture at 
> least'postmodern' tends to get omitted. Is there something newer out there 
> that looks at all promising? >>
> 
> Funny comment.  The rash of building going on right now in Times Square in NY 
> is certainly postmodern in the way that term applies in architecture--mixing 
> of media, (i.e., materials), recycling of modern and premodern styles, false 
> structural elements, etc.   

Meant it doesn't seem necessary to use a special word to describe the new
buildings. It's sort of taken for granted that the lesson of Los Vegas has
been learned.

			P 




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