In response to some of the conference supporters who questioned my questioning of the conference Reconsidering Postmodernism, I offer this from Architectural Record:
Old Debates for a New Era at Postmodernism Conference
An aesthetic that mined the past gets a historical consideration of its own at a New York City symposium.
Old Debates for a New Era at Postmodernism Conference
November 14, 2011
An aesthetic that mined the past gets a historical consideration of its own at a New York City symposium.
“Lumping the classicists together with Robert Venturi—whose use of columns and architraves, even its supporters concede, can be superficial and ironic—seems a disservice to both.
Yet several speakers claimed that postmodernism made it possible for classical architecture to flourish in the United States and England. “Postmodernism allowed for that opening; you have to be thankful for that,” said the London classicist Demetri Porphyrios. But it seems likely that the opposite is also true—that postmodernism, as popularized by Venturi, Charles Moore, and Philip Johnson, made any use of classical orders suspect.”
I rest my case.
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