"The starting point for much of the debate about postmodern issues in the twentieth century has been architecture. It has even been suggested that the transition from the modern to the era of the postmodern can be specified as 3:32 p.m. on 15 July 1972. This is the time when a prize-winning example of modern housing -- the Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis -- was blown up because it was considered unsuitable for human habitation even by those on a low income. Modern architecture was characterized by the principles of architects such as Le Corbusier who was at his most influential in the 1920s, though his ideas are typified by the high-rise flats which came to dominate our cities in the 1960s." (p.41 - Routledge Companion to Postmodernism)
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