"Facadism" Returns, or the Advent of the "Duck-orated Shed"

Embedded in the culture of modern architecture is the directive that a facade ought to fit tightly around its building, like a well-fitting suit. "False facades,""facadism," and the "screen facade" have been derisive terms used by architects and critics to describe buildings whose facades appear either too big or too small for their buildings. Postmodernism changed this, so that facades relatively independent of their interiors were encouraged. The neo-modernism of the last two decades has integrated this "disconnected" facade into the practice of what otherwise is a revival of the system of the heroic period of the movement.