Editing Pediment (section)

===Postmodern reinterpretations===
[[File:Sony Building by David Shankbone crop.jpg|thumb|[[550 Madison Avenue]], New York, by [[Philip Johnson]], 1981-1984{{sfn|Hopkins|2014|p=203}}]]

[[Postmodernism]], a movement that questioned [[Modernism]] (the [[status quo]] after WW2), promoted the inclusion of elements of historic styles in new designs. An early text questioning Modernism was by architect [[Robert Venturi]], ''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'' (1966), in which he recommended a revival of the 'presence of the past' in architectural design. He tried to include in his own buildings qualities that he described as 'inclusion, inconsistency, compromise, accommodation, adaptation, superadjacency, equivalence, multiple focus, juxtaposition, or good and bad space.'<ref>{{cite book|last1=Watkin|first1=David|title=A History of Western Architecture|date=2022|publisher=Laurence King|isbn=978-1-52942-030-2|page=660|url=|language=en}}</ref> 

Venturi encouraged 'quotation', which means reusing elements of the past in new designs. Part manifesto, part architectural scrapbook accumulated over the previous decade, the book represented the vision for a new generation of architects and designers who had grown up with Modernism but who felt increasingly constrained by its perceived rigidities. Multiple Postmodern architects and designers put simplified reinterpretations of the pediment found in Classical decoration at the top of their creations. As with other elements and ornaments taken from styles of the pre-Modern past, they were in most cases highly simplified. Especially when it comes to office architecture, Postmodernism was only skin deep; the underlying structure was usually very similar, if not identical, to that of Modernist buildings.{{sfn|Hopkins|2014|p=200, 203}}

In 1984 [[Philip Johnson]] designed what is now called [[550 Madison Avenue]] in New York City (formerly known as the Sony Tower, Sony Plaza, and AT&T Building), a famous work of [[Post-Modern architecture]], where a broken pediment at the top of a typical [[skyscraper]] wittily evokes a [[Thomas Chippendale]]-style [[Tallboy (furniture)|tallboy]] at a massive scale. [[Marco Polo House]] in London (1989, now demolished) was similar.

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File:Schullin Kohlmarkt 2.JPG|Schullin II jewelry boutique, [[Vienna]], Austria, by [[Hans Hollein]], 1982<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gura|first1=Judith|title=Postmodern Design Complete|date=2017|publisher=Thames & Hudson|isbn=978-0-500-51914-1|page=98|url=|language=en}}</ref>
Amoreiras - Lisboa - Portugal (51248936123) (cropped pediments).jpg|[[Torres das Amoreiras]], Lisbon, Portugal, by [[Tomás Taveira]], 1986<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gura|first1=Judith|title=Postmodern Design Complete|date=2017|publisher=Thames & Hudson|isbn=978-0-500-51914-1|page=98|url=|language=en}}</ref>
Pumping station, Stewart Street (geograph 4678320).jpg|The [[Isle of Dogs Pumping Station]], London, [[John Outram]], 1988<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gura|first1=Judith|title=Postmodern Design Complete|date=2017|publisher=Thames & Hudson|isbn=978-0-500-51914-1|page=121|url=|language=en}}</ref>
Marco Polo House (brighter cropped version).jpg|[[Marco Polo House]], London, by [[Ian Pollard]], 1987-1989
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