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Having a modernist or postmodernist appearance but not having the associated qualities.
More than ever, architecture seems to be where the contemporary moment is dramatised: the oligarchs in their new penthouses, the bondholders in their new office towers, and the rest of us, competing for pseudomodernist new-builds designed on the understanding that we will be grateful to find anywhere at all to live.
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Pseudomodernist means Having a modernist or postmodernist appearance but not having the associated qualities.
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More than ever, architecture seems to be where the contemporary moment is dramatised: the oligarchs in their new penthouses, the bondholders in their new office towers, and the rest of us, competing for pseudomodernist new-builds designed on the understanding that we will be grateful to find anywhere at all to live.
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