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Postmodern Utopias

"A late twentieth century style and concept in architecture that represents a departure from modernism and it has a heart of general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of art," this is the Webster's definition of the word, postmodern. Then we have a utopia, which is "an imaginary place or state of things in which everything is perfect." Utopia is also, a definition by Webster. The idea of a postmodern utopia is as follows, "Postmodern forms, at once more pragmatic, multiauthored, and more responsive to green and social concerns" (Freestone, 2000). The era of the postmodern utopia started in the early 1990's and continues to progress onward today. With so much of society focused upon the ecology of the environment, as well as a few other factors of the growing new urban world, architects' long range thinking began to change within the layouts of their buildings along with the layout of the new city......

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