ABSTRACT
The story of Postmodernism’s journey from outsider eccentricity to mainstream appeal can be attributed to the work and influences of a number of key groups & individuals, including the ‘Grays’ and the ‘Whites’, and the Santa Monica School in the US, the Tendenza, Radicals, and Memphis in Italy, Ricardo Bofill in Spain, Hans Hollein in Austria, and Arata Isozaki in Japan, amongst others. This chapter explores how the architects worked both alongside and independently of each other, their particular interests and motivations, and the influential projects they produced in which they began to lay down the roots of Postmodernism and proclaim its relevance. The hedonism and populism at the heart of High Tech is possibly why there was so easily crossover in the UK between architects exploring that form of late Modernism and the transgressive mixing of Postmodernity when it began to arrive on the British Isles.
