To the contrary, modernist and postmodern architects became much more free to use asymmetry as a design element.

Such was the case here, when postmodern architects started spinning the weird fiction that the modern movement had broken with history.

Robert Venturi, the postmodern architect, said that while he was sympathetic to opponents of smoking, tobacco billboards could also be objects of beauty.

The Chinese architectural community at the time also showed little interest in the building, as they tended to celebrate postmodern architects from the US like Michael Graves.

American postmodern architects, the Pritzker jurors seem to be saying, took an ax to the historical traditions they supposedly represent.

We should conclude from this that postmodern architects stated good goals for architecture but were unable to achieve them.

Sjoerd Soeters (born 2 August 1947 in Nes) is a well-known postmodern Dutch architect.

In the name of history, postmodern architects threw history out the window.

In the name of tradition, postmodern architects shredded that, too.