Revisiting Postmodernism

Name: Revisiting Postmodernism
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By Sir Terry Farrell and Adam Nathaniel Furman

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Revisiting Postmodernism explores postmodernism as a broad cultural phenomenon, highlighting its complexity and pluralism beyond just a visual style. The book focuses on architecture while also examining design, urban planning, and place-making. It offers two viewpoints: one from Sir Terry Farrell, a pioneer in postmodern architecture, and another from Adam Nathaniel Furman, who analyses the movement with a contemporary perspective. Through rich historical and global examples, the book reveals how postmodernism transformed architectural practice, celebrating the diversity and unique beauty of the era.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in architecture, design, and cultural history, particularly those seeking a deeper understanding of postmodernism's influence and legacy within the built environment.

Revisiting Postmodernism offers an engaging, wide-ranging and highly illustrated account of postmodernism in architecture from its roots in the 1940s to its ongoing relevance today.

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Revisiting Postmodernism invites readers to see postmodernism in a new light: not just as a style, but as a cultural phenomenon which embraces all areas of life, and thrives on complexity and pluralism. Focusing on architecture but touching on other elements of design, urban planning, and place-making, this engaging book reflects both on the historical movement and on how postmodernism influences practices today.

Sir Terry Farrell and Adam Nathaniel Furman present two separate but complementary perspectives of this rich period of architectural history; one account as lived experience from a protagonist and pioneer in the field of postmodern architecture, and the other analysing the movement afresh, through the lens of the 21st century.

Shedding new light onto the forces and influences of the time, and offering insight into how these were transforming approaches to architecture both in the UK and internationally, this important book presents a new appreciation of this period of architectural history. Sumptuously illustrated with examples from across the globe, Revisiting Postmodernism offers a fresh perspective on buildings of this period, sharing their richness, diversity, and brilliance, with an emphasis on what was interesting, beautiful, and unique about the architecture which emerged from this unusually fertile moment in history.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781859466322

Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 November 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: RIBA Publishing

Illustration: 200 Illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 196.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 200

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Adam Nathaniel Furman Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Sir Terry Farrell

About the Author

Sir Terry Farrell CBE is an award-winning international architect and town planner. Notable projects include Vauxhall Cross (the MI6 building), Charing Cross station, and The Deep in Hull. He has taught at the AA, University of Westminster and the University of Pennsylvania, and The Bartlett, UCL. He is a member of the Mayor of London’s Design Advisory Group and Outer London Commission, and led the government-commissioned Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment in 2013–14. He was awarded a CBE in 1996 and a knighthood in 2001.
Adam Nathaniel Furman is a designer whose practice ranges from architecture & interiors, to sculpture, installation, writing and product design. He graduated from the AA with honours in 2008, having previously been awarded a RIBA Bronze Commendation in 2006, and has since been the recipient of the Design Museum Designer in Residence 2013-14, Blueprint Award for Design Innovation 2014, the UK Rome Prize for Architecture 2014-15, and is one of the Architecture Foundation's New Architects 2016.