I'm not a fan of post modernism but if you want to see Graves doing it pretty well I recommend the San Juan Capistrano Public Library in Southern CA.
On the other hand I believe that certain practitioners of the PM "art" did their contextual, humanistic thing with a certain level of sarcasm and condescension to what they perceived as the bourgeois culture of the time. And I found it infuriating. To wit, Venturi's overscaled TV antenna on a senior housing project, "celebrating" the nature of the life lived inside. In the same way that modernism was (is) done badly by cheapening it and only superficially understanding it, post modernism became a caricature of itself with simplistic, cartoonish decoration on boxes inspired by Monopoly houses and hotels.
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Eugene Ely AIA Emeritus, LEED AP
San Jose, CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-01-2017 11:48
From: Mike Mense
Subject: hating Michael Graves
A photo essay of a building in Washington DC claiming the importance of Graves' contributions.
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Mike Mense FAIA
mmenseArchitect
New York NY
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