Architecture of Late Postmodernism in Foreign Countries

The article analyzes the phenomenon of late postmodernism in the architecture of Europe and the USA after 2000 as a qualitatively new stage in the development of the postmodern paradigm. It examines the transformation of classical postmodern principles in the context of a changing socio-cultural landscape. The fundamental differences between late postmodernism and its classical phase of the 1970s–1990s are identified. Key contemporary trends are analyzed: total stylistic hybridization, fractal citationality (where postmodernism itself becomes an object of quotation), the transformation of contextualism, the emergence of adaptive and transformable architecture, and the development of algorithmic agency.

A.A. KHUDIN, Doctor of Architecture, Professor of the Department of Architectural Design (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (65, Ilyinskaya Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603000, Russian Federation)

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