Resume. Article titled " Crossroads Passed? American Architecture Bids Final Farewell to Post-Modernist Past” discusses the end of the postmodern era in American architecture. In its time, postmodernism was accompanied by the return of absolute point of reference, recognition of historical-cultural values, fragmentation, disconnection, and in some cases simply an ironic reaction to modernism. Postmodernism was therefore characterized by embellishment, decoration, hidden expression - instead of structure and clarity, refusal to draw boundaries between high and low culture, acceptance of copy, parody, irony and frivolity. But in the 1990s, against the conservatism of commercial architecture, a group of avant-garde architects led by Dutchman Rem Koolhaas called for a revival of modernist forms and abstractions. In the United States, this opposite shift suddenly took shape in the production of twisted post-Euclidean geometry.