Design and Architecture
Matthew Sullivan and Design that Doesn’t Save the World
Postmodernism was a colorful reaction to Modernism's high seriousness. Hear from Maura Lucking and Matthew Sullivan why a new generation is going PoMo.
By Frances Anderton • • 25m ListenPostmodernism was a colorful reaction to Modernism’s high seriousness. Now Matthew Sullivan and a new generation of designers are revisiting the attitude, the aesthetics, and the arcane theory of the rebel designers post-68. Maura Lucking and Matthew Sullivan discuss why. And, Matt Holzman explores a Santa Monica development that almost destroyed the Santa Monica Pier and moved a community from right to left.
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In the late 1960's, Santa Monica, in Southern California, was literally growing up. And then there were plans to build The Island, a proposed man-made, 35-acre island, right off the beach, connected to the mainland by a sinuous automobile causeway.
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Matthew Sullivan is an artist and furniture designer based in LA and he has his own firm, Al Que Quiere – loosely translated from the Latin, "for he who wants it."
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