- Published by Phaidon Press
- Editor: Owen Hopkins
- 14th Feb. 2020
- Language: English
- Hardcover
- 224 pages
Depth: 25 cm / 9.8"
Height: 3 cm / 1.2"
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Phaidon Press has long been recognised as the publisher of record for art, architecture, and design, producing large-format volumes that combine exhaustive scholarship with a refined sense of visual storytelling. Its catalogue reads like a canon of the fields it covers, each book conceived to endure well beyond its publication date.
Written by architectural historian Owen Hopkins, this 224-page hardcover surveys the postmodern movement’s most exuberant buildings, from Michael Graves’s Portland Building to James Stirling’s Neue Staatsgalerie, taking its title from Robert Venturi’s famous riposte to modernist orthodoxy. It makes a spirited case for a style long dismissed as excessive, a colourful, opinionated reference for anyone drawn to architecture that refuses to take itself too seriously.
