Find a building in Tampa that you think qualifies as bad PoMo architecture- or that the creator of this website would think of as BAD POMO architecture. The building must be in Tampa. It can be a house, it can be an office building, it can be a strip mall or a regular inside mall, it can be any kind of building at all. You must be able to make the argument that it is 1) an example of Post Modernism and 2) why this particular architectural critic would think it is bad.
Be descriptive. Make me see it without use of the picture! Think of excess in terms of ornament, how ornament relates to scale, how ornament repeats, how roof lines and volumes work together, what style is referenced in the ornament (if any), how it fits in or disrupts the neighborhood, how the exterior suggests what the interior might be or not, how different materials work together, how repetition and various work or don’t work, and lastly, how looking at and going in to the building makes you feel.
Do not attempt to use AI to perform this complex and specific assignment. Do not look up facts about your chosen building. Do not look up anything.
There is no penalty for writing more than 500 words. You may write in the first person. You may give your own personal opinion, as long as it is backed up with description and persuasive argument. Please treat this as a formal paper, with proper margins and header, title (name of building or something like this “House at 202 W. Immokalee Street.” Write in paragraphs. Do not waste time stating what you are going to be writing about in generalizations- that is, do not write a long introduction that is not getting to the point of describing and analyzing why this building is particularly bad and why this building is an example of Post Modernism. You should demonstrate in your paper an understanding of what Modernist architecture purported to be and what Post Modernist architects did in order to break away from Modernism.
