Mr. Rudolph's work also found disfavor in another quarter: the young architects and scholars who would shortly emerge as leaders of the post-modern movement.

In the late 1980's, the apogee of the prematurely named post-Modern movement, architecture was scarcely worth getting out of bed for.

But it also suggested that the post-modern movement was creatively inspired, not the reactionary force it would become.

Born in 1945, Israel studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale in the early days of the post-modern movement.

An architect trained in the formative years of the post-modern movement, he was open to many approaches to design.

The post-modern movement has become an esthetic tyranny: a fear of change.

Nothing would have pleased him more than to dispatch a stealth bomber to wipe out the entire post-modern movement.

It helped to retrieve architecture from the historical trash can to which the post-modern movement had gleefully consigned it.

As the post-modern movement gathered momentum - Yale was one of the movement's engines - Rudolph gradually withdrew from the scene.

This inconsistency has given rise to post-modern and anti-modern movements.