The Twentieth Century Society

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Architectural Styles V: PoMo with Geraint Franklin

In reaction against Modernist rigidity, the architecture of the ‘Me Decade’ of the 1980s was Post Modernism (PoMo).  It borrowed playfully from history but its best practitioners took seriously the obligation to fit into existing streetscapes and to restore human scale and identity of place.