exhibit: Chasing After Utopia's Ghost [CA]

According to its detractors, the utopian ideals of modern 
architecture—whether those of social engineering or the "perfection" of 
form through stark functionalism—were pronounced dead at the scene of 
the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex demolition in St. Louis in 1972. Out of 
its rubble, a neo-eclectic, humanistic style dubbed Postmodernism 
emerged, supposedly purging utopianism from the architectural lexicon 
and birthing the form anew.

That notion is being challenged by "Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism 
Reconsidered," an exhibit on display through May 25 at the Canadian 
Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal. The exhibit grew out two 
seminars by Columbia University architecture professor Reinhold Martin 
exploring the premise that utopianism is not dead. Or alive, for that matter

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