postmodern architecture

collocation in English

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postmodern
adjective
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/ˌpəʊstˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˌpoʊstˈmɑː.dɚn/
relating ...
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architecture
noun[U]
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/ˈɑː.kɪ.tek.tʃər/us
/ˈɑːr.kə.tek.tʃɚ/
the art and practice of designing and ...
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(Definition ofpostmodernandarchitecturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Against their alienating severitypostmodernarchitecturehas rebelled by reclaiming a vernacular idiom that would replace modernist abstraction with postmodern concreteness, and modernist seriousness with postmodern playfulness.
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Town has mostlypostmodernarchitecturemeaning that most of the pre-20th-century buildings were replaced in the '60s and '80s.
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The effect the building had on the public at large has been described as legitimizing thepostmodernarchitecturemovement on the world stage.
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Facadomy is a popular practice inpostmodernarchitecturereaching its peak in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Postmodernarchitectureoccasionally includes historical elements, like columns, capitals or the tympanum.
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As withpostmodernarchitectureand conceptual art, this approach prioritizes the concept, or big idea as the driving force behind a project.
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By the 1980s,postmodernarchitectureappeared to trend over modernism.
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Postmodernarchitectureand historicism is distinctly evident in this part of campus.
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However,postmodernarchitecturefocuses on forms derived from the mind, body, city context, and nature.
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Late modern andpostmodernarchitecturebegan to appear in the early-2000s.
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In 2008, her work was described as based onpostmodernarchitectureand natural forms, with asymmetrical elements.
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Late modern andpostmodernarchitecturebegan to appear in the late-1990s and early-2000s.
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Whenpostmodernarchitecturebecame widely popular in the 1980s, a return to classical architecture language was combined with contemporary elements.
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Its destruction is considered by some to be the beginning ofpostmodernarchitecture.
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The 19861987 expansion introducedpostmodernarchitectureto the mall with a recurring pyramid motif.
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It characterizes some elements as prescient ofpostmodernarchitecture, such as the broken pediments enhancing the raised doorways and the brick and terra-cotta frame of the square openings.
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It is an outgrowth ofpostmodernarchitecture.
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