Facts about Postmodernist Architecture

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   Michael Graves' Portland Building in Oregon, completed in 1982, is often cited as one of the first major public buildings in the postmodernist architecture style.

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   Charles Jencks, a prominent theorist of postmodernist architecture, famously declared the death of modernism with the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in 1972.

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   The AT&T Building in New York, designed by Philip Johnson and completed in 1984, became an iconic symbol of postmodernist architecture with its distinctive Chippendale-style crown.

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   Robert Venturi's 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is widely considered a foundational theoretical text for the postmodernist architecture movement.

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   Postmodernist architecture emerged as a reaction against Modernism's austerity, embracing historical references, ornamentation, and playful eclecticism from the 1960s onward.

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