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[David Morris]

Times Square IS Las Vegas, for God's sake!  Theatricality/Advertizing is 
it's essence.  Hardly the place to look for today's predominant 
architectural zeigheist.

As I said before, PoMo has had lasting lessons, but it is well over as the 
leading influence in architectural theory today.

David Morris

>From: Paul Mackin
>
>
>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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