Postmodern architecture was an international style whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, and which continues to influence present-day architecture.
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Combining new ideas with traditional forms, postmodernist buildings may startle, surprise, and even amuse.
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Postmodernism: A reaction to the Modern style was Postmodernism which developed in the 1950s. It reintroduces color and symbolism to architecture, replacing the aggressively unornamented modern styles.
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Between about 1965 and 1980 architects and critics began to espouse tendencies resulting in a style that is loosely called postmodern.
By 1925, the Beaux Arts style had fallen out of favor, criticized as being too ostentatious. Later in the 20 th century, however, postmodernists rediscovered an appreciation of the Beaux Arts ideals and began to incorporate them into their designs.
All definitions are reproduced from the required course textbook:
Trachtenberg, Marvin and Isabell Hyman, Architecture, From Prehistory to Postmodernity: the Western tradition, 2nd Ed., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall; New York: H.N.
A much-debated cultural label, used in the architectural world since the 1970s to denote the reuse of motifs from historical styles, in contexts where a Modernist approach would have omitted them. Postmodern buildings often mix these in a knowing or ...
 See also: Architecture, House, Modernism, Arches, Postmodernism
  
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