Postmodernism deserves a little love too!

That tunnel is strongly associated with PoMo for me from when I did layover there in my youth and rode the people mover back and forth to kill time.

Side note: those recent photos remind me why I loathe what the nickel and diming of flying has done to the airport experience. So many people lugging around roll aboards and backpacks. They clutter up the terminals and the planes.
 
From my Denver trip, this is the one piece of "capital A" architecture I stopped to take photos of out there: Michael Graves' very large and in charge Denver Central Library.

It is classic Graves.... monumental, inviting, sumptuous, childlike. Not only do I like it and think it's one of Graves' best works, but apparently the people of Denver like it as well. True unfiltered PoMo (aka not contextualism/historicism) rarely got more civic or monumental than this.

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And then here's my photos

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A few years back at the Westborough Library book sale I picked up Graphic Design USA 18, the Annual of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. It covers (roughly) the 1993-1997 timeframe and is just phenomenal, great early web stuff and a section on album art that includes all the good stuff from the mid-90s. Very little architecture per se, but a few elements that caught my eye flipping through it again today. I guess the office space isn't strictly PoMo, but it definitely is in the late transitional period, and the GiftWorks store is 100% Grade A consumerist postmodernism. And that colorful Mac booth - I'm on a vintage Mac kick even though we only had Windows computers as a kid (and I would have been disappointed to not be able to play Monster Truck Madness), and I am just so jealous of anyone who got to experience that space in person.

Highly recommend the book, even if you pay more than the $2 I got it for.

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I have fond memories of the MacWorld Boston conferences every August. Companies put together some elaborate booths for one week of use. Too bad there isn’t a more comprehensive photographic record of them.
 
RandomWalk said:
I have fond memories of the MacWorld Boston conferences every August. Companies put together some elaborate booths for one week of use. Too bad there isn’t a more comprehensive photographic record of them.
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I know this isn't MacWorld in particular, but there's loads of video out there of past Consumer Electronics Shows that would probably scratch this itch, and for sure I'm always struck by just how elaborate those booths could be.
 
Arenacale said:
A few years back at the Westborough Library book sale I picked up Graphic Design USA 18, the Annual of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. It covers (roughly) the 1993-1997 timeframe and is just phenomenal, great early web stuff and a section on album art that includes all the good stuff from the mid-90s. Very little architecture per se, but a few elements that caught my eye flipping through it again today. I guess the office space isn't strictly PoMo, but it definitely is in the late transitional period, and the GiftWorks store is 100% Grade A consumerist postmodernism. And that colorful Mac booth - I'm on a vintage Mac kick even though we only had Windows computers as a kid (and I would have been disappointed to not be able to play Monster Truck Madness), and I am just so jealous of anyone who got to experience that space in person.

Highly recommend the book, even if you pay more than the $2 I got it for.

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I feel like I'm about to see Fraiser Crane walk out of one of these photos.
 
kz1000ps said:
I know this isn't MacWorld in particular, but there's loads of video out there of past Consumer Electronics Shows that would probably scratch this itch, and for sure I'm always struck by just how elaborate those booths could be.
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To be clear, it's not just CES - it'll be just about any major global trade show, in any industry. Major companies can spend 6 figures just for just their booths floor space, for a few days. Spending that again building and tearing down their booth is seen as a cost of doing business. (To be fair, most of those structures are modular and get broken down into a series of elaborate wooden crates for the next show) Not to mention their staff, travel, lodging, customer events, private meeting rooms, consumables, sponsorships etc. I've heard of 7 figure budgets for these things, and I've seen companies buy tvs and dispose of them after 3 days because Walmart is cheaper than shipping a 40in TV back to the office.
 
Finally caught Project Hail Mary at the AMC Boston Common. I had forgotten how much it leaned into the late 90s PoMo adjacent aesthetic in the common spaces.
 
as02155 said:
I feel like I'm about to see Fraiser Crane walk out of one of these photos.
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To that end (Frasier even appears in this one!), a video the algorithm served me about "Global Village Coffee House", the interior and graphic design scheme that I always find PoMo adjacent - it wasn't a strict part of the movement, but a lot of PoMo spaces in the 1990s also had this aesthetic inside:

 
RandomWalk said:
Finally caught Project Hail Mary at the AMC Boston Common. I had forgotten how much it leaned into the late 90s PoMo adjacent aesthetic in the common spaces.
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That movie is exceptionally great. On my list of favorite movies of all time. There is hope for Hollywood movies yet!
 
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