# Postmodern Architecture × Radical Architecture — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=postmodern-architecture+radical-architecture
# Postmodern Architecture carries the structure. Radical Architecture appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Postmodern Architecture (Style, 1960s–1990s) and its accent from Radical Architecture (Style, late-1960s–1970s). Structural cues: Historical quotation; Ornament returned; Strong color; Double meanings. Accent cues, used sparingly: Speculative cities; Anti-functionalism; Vast grids; Play and critique. Composition: Build a strong front, marking center and entrance with pediment and pilaster.. Type and lettering: Set headings in serif capitals and treat them as ornament with their frames.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Photomontage, flat black and white planes, mass produced furniture overwritten.. Mood: Play, Rebellion, Exhilaration, Futurism. Color: build on #e7d7c8, #b45d77, #526489 with a single accent drawn from #eae5d9, #d14a37, #24221f. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Modern Architecture, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Postmodern Architecture: Pasting on pediments and pilasters without knowing what they quote loses the irony and leaves a dated theme park facade, so read what in modernism is criticized and who the building addresses.
# - Radical Architecture: Borrowing the giant grid imagery without naming what it criticizes turns a stance of doubt into futuristic wallpaper.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/postmodern-architecture/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/radical-architecture/design.md