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[David Morris]

>From: Paul Mackin
>
>David Morris wrote:
>
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >Isn't that what everybody wants in their new corporate headquarters 
>campus
> > >in the suburbs also.
> > >
> >
> > Even though architects are hirelings, working for the Yankee dollar, 
>those
> > promoting the "cutting edge" of theory don't give a damn about what
> > "everybody wants."  Just ask Frank Lloyd Wright.
>
>Can this "cutting edge" be tailored to litcrit in some way that goes
>beyond tired out old pomo--my original question actually?
>
>
I know more about the current architecture than I do the current litcrit 
(nil).  In architecture there are no big identifiable movements, just 
numerous "trends."  It could be that we are still in an overidingly PoMo 
phase, but as a "cause" it is out of favor.  The present "trends" are mostly 
in reaction to what have been seen as the failures of PoMo.  I could begin 
to enumerate what I see as some of these failures & reactions, which may 
have their parallel in literature, but then my neck would be way too far out 
of my shell.

I'd say we are in a Po-PoMo time, but what does that mean?

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