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Berlin Science Library by James Stirling

A postmodern building used as a critical example of failed center-making: weak centers due to copy-paste imagery and lack of emergence from wholeness.

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James Stirling
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Prominent 20th-century architect, designer of the Berlin Science Library, used as a critical example of postmodern architecture's failure to create living centers.

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Postmodern architectural centers suffer from four defects: lack of smaller centers, image-like copies, failure to emerge from wholeness, and failure to help form larger centers.
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Framework for critiquing postmodern design, exemplified by Stirling's Berlin library.
The apparently strong centers in Stirling's Berlin library are actually very weak due to the four defects of cut-and-paste imagery and lack of contextual emergence.
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Specific application of the four-defect critique to a canonical building.