Word: postmodern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This season of makeshift and grumbling, however, may turn out to have been the period in which the U.S., without really noticing that its attitudes have shifted, passed a balance point toward the acceptance of solar energy. A principle of architecture's postmodern school is that architecture is not an instrument of social change; it reflects social change. If that is true, then the solar age may be on its way. In San Diego County, all new residences built after Jan. 1, 1980, must have solar hot-water heaters. In Santa Fe, solar-home builders Wayne and Susan Nichols estimate...
...rule it is implicitly understood to be the agent of other, almost equally potent divisive forces-class distinctions, for example, or unyielding morality-and the fact that such considerations have the power to keep postmodern lovers apart for no more than about 30 seconds presents the contemporary novelist or film maker with a rather serious problem in plot construction...
post-bourgeois, post-capitalist, post-Christian, post-civilized, post-economic, posthistoric, postindustrial, postliberal, post-literature, post-market, post-materialist, postmodern, post-organization, post-protestant, post-puritan, post-scarcity, post-traditional, post-tribal and post-welfare...