When does modern architecture come to an end?

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Vanna Venturi House, 1964, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Robert Venturi

Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, although modern architecture does not disappear, a series of new tendencies emerge that diversify architectural production around the world. In some cases, these new trends are difficult to fit into the category of modern architecture. New broad categories begin to appear ─ like postmodernism or contemporary architecture ─ along with more specific ones, such as deconstructivism. This is the point, although the distinction is not categorical, where the hegemonic period of what we have called modern architecture comes to a close, although subsequent architectural currents are indebted to it and continue to draw on many of its postulates.

Habitat 67, 1967 Montreal, Moshe Safdie

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