sardonick

In rejecting the faux functionalism of the modern style, the postmodernists have also tended to reject true functionalism.

Chip Morningstar’s thoughts on postmodern architecture

In a nutshell: postmodernism is bad because it’s a faulty antireaction to modernism that misinterpretted “form follows function”.

…It is not surprising, then, that a newer generation of architects should look back at modernism and respond with a different set of standards. Whatever else you may say about the designers who are the subject of this essay, few of their works would qualify as dull. However, a curious thing happened in the reaction to modernism. When they tossed the International Style out the window, they tossed its rationale with it, apparently still believing in the causal model claimed by modernist theory (in other words, the postmodernists rejected the modernists’ conclusions but not their reasoning).