Les Espaces D’Abraxas, Noisy-Le-Grand, France. Ricardo Bofill, 1983
History, complexity, memory, the richness of contemporary commercial streetscapes: these concerns which were so completely at odds with the rarefied, future-facing stasis of the International Modern consensus, began increasingly to take hold of architects’ imaginations from the late 1960s onwards. The story of Postmodernism’s journey from outsider eccentricity to mainstream appeal can be attributed to the work and influences of a number of key groups & individuals, including the ‘Grays’ and the ‘Whites’, and the Santa Monica School ...
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