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CONK! Encyclopedia: Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | For other uses of the term "Architecture" see Architecture (disambiguation) |
| | The architectural profession responded to this partly by attempting a more populist architecture at the visual level, even if at the expense of sacrificing depth for shallowness, a direction called Postmodernism. |
| | Robert Venturi's contention that a "decorated shed" (an ordinary building which is functionally designed inside and embellished on the outside) was better than a "duck" (a building in which the whole form and its function are considered together) gives an idea of this approach. |
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