ABSTRACT
The concluding section explains why Hans Hollein’s career offers a broader, deeper view of Postmodernism – one that is not so limited to style and formal appearance, but rather emerges from a wider critique of the relationship between the creative arts, and of architecture’s relationship to society and history. This book puts forward a deeper and more culturally nuanced analysis of Postmodernism, while providing the first-ever substantive analysis of an undoubtedly important architect who was once so important that he was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1985, yet by the time of his death in 2014 had become all but forgotten.
