Submitted by A.C. Douglas, Dec 17, 2007 12:30

But, as Ms. Scott's book suggests, perhaps the inaugural moment in the emergence of Postmodernism as a conscious reaction to the arid purity of the International Style came in 1972, with the publication of "Learning From Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form" by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Somewhat earlier than that, actually, but from the same source. Robert Venturi's seminal, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published in 1966 by MoMA (but written mostly in 1962) was the true herald of postmodernism in architecture even though Venturi vociferously denies that anything he wrote heralded or provoked the postmodern movement in architecture.

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