Writing in The Spectator, Jonathan Meades explores the subject of The Twentieth Century Society\u2019s conference on 21 May 2016.<\/p>\n
Meades notes :\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018It will, no doubt, soon be the turn of postmodern buildings to feel the rough buss of the wrecker\u2019s ball.\u2019<\/p>\n
He touches on the style\u2019s relationship with brutalism and the reception of architects\u2019 use of the new guise.\u00a0 Andrew Derbyshire, for example, after his work at York University, was seen as a turncoat for adopting postmodernism for the Hillingdon Civic Centre. \u00a0The leaders in the field, Jeremy Dixon, Terry Farrell and Piers Gough of the partnership CZWG, are highlighted.\u00a0 Meades also touches on the components of the style citing \u2018randomly applied lumps of pediment; upside-down Diocletian windows; cod classical orders; asymmetry wherever possible.\u2019<\/p>\n
Dixon\u2019s houses in St Mark\u2019s Road in Notting Dale, \u00a0Farrell\u2019s MI6 building in Lambeth and Charing Cross station, Gough\u2019s public lavatory, in Westbourne Grove are among those which Meades names in his piece.<\/p>\n
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