“The formal tropes of today's Post-Modernism obviously grew out of yesterday: complexity and contradiction, ornament and multiple articulation, collage and juxtaposition, layering and ambiguity, multivalence and double coding.”
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“The typical Post-Modern building speaks on several levels at once, to high and low culture, and acknowledges the global situation where no single culture can speak for the entire world.”
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Shane cites Carol Willis’s book Form Follows Finance, this idea of money deciding the form of a building seems like an interesting thought.
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