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HANS IBELINGS<br />

Architectural historian, The <strong>Architecture</strong> Observer, Amsterdam/Montreal, ibelings@architectureobserver.eu<br />

POST‐EVERYTHING<br />

ARCHITECTURE AND IDEOLOGY AFTER THE 20TH CENTURY<br />

Abstract |<br />

The postmodern deconstruction of modern ideologies <strong>and</strong> dogmas during the last decades of<br />

the 20th century may have had a liberating effect in many fields, including that of architecture<br />

<strong>and</strong> architectural discourse. But it has led to the delusion that we have entered <strong>and</strong> are<br />

witnessing a post‐era, 'a state of permanent atemporality', apparently devoid of ideals. As<br />

such, postmodernism is a complex form of stagnation, the creation of a transient yet immobile<br />

vacuum.<br />

Key words |<br />

<strong>Architecture</strong>, Postmodernism, Modernism, <strong>Ideology</strong>, End of History, Globalization

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