Evolutionary Tree of Post-Modern Architecture, 1960-1980

Categorizing architectural styles. If you stay on the level of aesthetics - maybe, yes… but if you think about WHY architects designed the way they did - please don’t consider these categories! I am wondering why you would do this to let’s say the work of Venturi (who is mentioned in the diagram). In his, and even more in denise Scott Brown’s writings you will always be told, WHY they have designed a certain building the way they did. What is it about architectural history that so many scholars only look at the surface of things? Is it the aesthetics that overwhelms them? Or am I too stubborn in assuming that architecture is not art but a social process?