Chung Tai Chan Temple, Taiwan. C.Y. Lee, 2001
As the ambition of Postmodernism’s pioneers, and the scale of their buildings, grew over the 80s and early 90s, the critical backlash to their work rapidly gathered momentum, and was already well under way by the time some of the buildings we most associate with the period were under construction. Broad as the range of approaches were in this period, they were mostly characterised by a shared interest in the past, and in the ways in which buildings communicate. These qualities, once scaled up to the parody-like – and some would say sinister – scale of the historical ...
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