Style Guide: Postmodernism

Covers post-modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 1960s to the early 21st century

From Louis Sullivan, father of the skyscraper, to Frank Gehry, magician of the post-millennial museum, Filler emphasizes how their force of personality has had a decisive effect on everything from how we inhabit our homes to how we shape our cities.

Presents concise but authoritative studies on leading exponents of the building art from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

Interviews with members of Metabolism, together with dozens of their mentors, collaborators, rivals, critics, proteges, and families. The result is a vivid documentary of the last avant-garde movement and the last moment that architecture was a public rather than a private affair.