historicist
- a word derived from historicism.
Example Sentences
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The building’s original architect, Kirk Peterson, told Berkeleyside after its completion in 2020: “I wanted to make art. I wanted to do a correct, authentic, historicist building. Now it looks like crap. It looks god-awful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
Whitney Krahn, who recently competed her PhD on Viollet-le-Duc’s writing, said the architect viewed his additions not as historicist pastiche but as modern and vital.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2019
“A half century often triggers nostalgic mythologizing. I wanted instead to reflect on postmodernism’s historicist and populist roots and how that architecture impacts discussions about public building today.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018
The embrace of period instruments by the society, founded in 1815 to promote the performance of the music of the two composers, marked the ascendancy of the historicist movement.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2014
There was nothing “un-American” about any of them, and all of them were at least partly historicist: They saw America as it was and as it was changing.
From Salon ● May 26, 2013
