Symbolic architecture
Symbolic architecture. Term coined by Charles Jencks in the 1980s to describe architecture with a strong degree of personification or with allusions to cultural ideas, historical references, and other pre-Modernist themes, or in which there were visual jokes, puns, and mnemonic motifs.
Bibliography
Jencks (1985);
J. Walker (1992)
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