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Monocle on Design - Britain’s postmodern buildings
5 June 2018
We ask why a spate of the UK’s bright and bewildering but controversial postmodern buildings have just obtained listed status. Plus: dispatches from the Venice Biennale – what can the Holy Land teach us about sharing and…
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Monocle on Design - On Design 1: What is postmodern architecture?
28 July 2016
‘On Design’ is a weekly feature brought to you by the team behind ‘Section D’. Over the course of a few minutes each week we profile a person, survey a place or unpack an idea that’s shaping the design industry. In this…
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Meet the Writers - Monocle Reads: Stuart Jeffries
6 January 2022
Georgina Godwin speaks to Stuart Jeffries about his latest book, ‘Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern’. It is a unique history of postmodernism from the 1970s until today, exploring how behind the…
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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 179: Hawksmoor’s churches, London
21 October 2019
We take a tour of six distinctive East London churches designed by 18th-century English architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, tracing their history from the first brick to their influence on US postmodernism and UK brutalism.
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Monocle on Design - Extra: Remembering Robert Venturi
27 September 2018
We discuss the reluctant father of postmodernism and his life and work partner, Denise Scott Brown. Venturi redefined not only how buildings should look but how we should think about architecture’s role in the world.
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Monocle on Design - Meeting Sir Terry Farrell
19 February 2019
Architect Sir Terry Farrell’s playful pastiche of styles can be seen from the MI6 building to the Breakfast Television Centre in London. His six-decade career has veered from masterplanning city blocks to building train…
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The Big Interview - Sir Terry Farrell
26 May 2019
Architect Sir Terry Farrell’s postmodern pastiche of styles include the MI6 building and the Breakfast Television Centre in London. His six-decade career has veered from masterplanning city blocks to building train stations…