Postmodern architecture’s celebration of spectator freedom masks shared social meaning

Evidence

Yet there is a certain facile naivety in such an answer. For there is much too much coherence between the imagery of city life laid out in books such as Raban’s Soft city and the system of architectural production and urban design here described for there to be nothing in particular beneath the surface glitter. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 587

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postmodern architecture debates are aesthetic mystification masking socioeconomic causes — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 583; Postmodern architecture’s surface fascination masks underlying conflicts between place-rootedness and cosmopolitan style. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 548; Postmodernist theorists conflate describing cultural change with celebrating it

Broader Connections

• Postmodern architecture’s surface fascination masks underlying conflicts between place-rootedness and cosmopolitan style. #expands (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 548
• Postmodernist theorists conflate describing cultural change with celebrating it #complicates (0.80)