ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/605338/ad-classics-robarts-library-warner-burns-toan-and-lunde Mon, 09 Mar 2015 07:00:50 +0000 David Langdon https://www.archdaily.com/605338/ad-classics-robarts-library-warner-burns-toan-and-lunde If the architectural volte face of the late 1960s heralded the genesis of postmodernism, deconstruction, and a golden age of theory, it came at an equally destructive cost. Escaping the totalizing regime of modernism demanded from architects more than the promise of new ideas; it required the falsification of modernist axioms and the wholesale annihilation of its spiritual eidos. In this critical moment of death and rebirth, some pieces of the modern project survived only by hiding under the cloak of the technological progress, while others—like modern city planning—persisted only because there was no way to turn back the clock.

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