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John Outram Associates: Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge  Designed 1991–2, built 1993–5  Image © Pat Payne / Historic England Modern Church Interior, Post Modern Architecture, Postmodern Architecture, Post Modernism, 80s Interior, Cool Buildings, Retro Interior Design, Modern Church, Church Interior

Postmodernist architecture will always be a divisive genre, which is precisely what makes those who love it, love it more. Beginning in the late 1970s as a reaction to modernist principles of form follows function, postmodernism in buildings manifested as a riot of tropical colours and the fusing of contemporary and classical decoration. Geraint Franklin and Elain Harwood, authors of new book _Post-modern Buildings in Britain_, call the eclectic results, at their best “individual and…

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Both exalted and derided for its playful exuberance, Postmodern architecture emerged in the 1960s as a radical response to the clean-lined modernist structures that dotted many a mid-century metropolis. By deploying classical geometries in oversized scales as well as eclectic material palettes, architects like Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass, and Robert A.M. Stern created a generation

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