Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 February 2008 to 25 May 2008
Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered
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Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
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postmodernism, postmodern, architecture itself, sylvia lavin, peter eisenman
7 November 2018 to 7 April 2019
Main galleries Keyword(s):
postmodernism, postmodern, architecture itself, sylvia lavin, peter eisenman
Looking beyond the North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
21 February 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in London: With Léa-Catherine Szacka
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Looking beyond the North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
14 March 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Warsaw: With Kuba Snopek
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Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
4 April 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Paris: With Pierre Chabard
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Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
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Where the Building Is Now
A history of references
17 November 2017
A history of references
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The Context Complex
With and Within
25 August 2020
With and Within
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postmodern, postmodernism, meanwhile in Japan, Itsuko Hasegawa, Kozo Kadowaki, Shonandai Cultural Centre
6 December 2020
An Architect Who Works With Citizens
Kozo Kadowaki on the Shonandai Cultural Centre by Itsuko Hasegawa
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Bridging a Chasm
postmodern, postmodernism, meanwhile in Japan, Toyo Ito, Commodified Housing Study Group, Koji Ichikawa, Kayoko Ota
23 January 2022
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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