Pomo summer: when Americanarchitect Robert Venturidesigneda home forhismother in the late 1950s, he reinterpretedthe archetypalsuburbanhouseas a contemporaryarchitecturalstatement.
It may be that PoMo quotation, of which a gutful has been served up over the past 25 years, served a useful purpose in reminding architecture's public that, yes, there was indeed a vast repertory of form and ornament on which early, messianic Modernism had turned its back.