Less is a Bore by Dezeen columnist Owen Hopkins reveals the diversity of postmodern architecture from around the world. Here, he spotlights 10 significant structures from the book that come in all shapes, sizes and colours.
Named after the anti-minimalist maxim coined by American architect Robert Venturi, Less is a Bore is a global survey of over 200 buildings that exhibit "postmodern architecture in all its forms".
It was curated by Hopkins for publisher Phaidon as a celebration of the movement that, despite being one of the 20th century's most controversial styles, is experiencing newfound popularity.

"[Less is a Bore] is about widening the canon and revealing the variety and richness of the movement, and looking beyond architecture to the world in which it operates," Hopkins told Dezeen. "Its goal is to establish postmodernism not as a style but as a sensibility that can be found in all places and all periods," he continued.
"A sensibility that values complexity over simplicity, decoration over minimalism, colour over the monochrome, fragmentation over singularity, contingency over universality, context over introspection, doubt over certainty, and in which more is always more."

Postmodernist architecture emerged in the 1960s, and thrived from the 1980s through to the 1990s. Alongside Venturi, it was led by architects Denise Scott Brown, Philip Johnson and Michael Graves.
Less is a Bore features photos of buildings ranging from...