supermodernism

Ibelings has termed the formal vocabulary of these architecturally interesting airports and of other similar large-scale works "supermodernism." Instead of taking an interest in the contextual and historical factors of architecture (as in the 70s and 80s), supermodernism is characterized by a susceptibility to categories like the neutral, the indistinct, or the implicit.

Existing modernism appeared to erode, then, in the face of this supermodernism, and at precisely the moment when art was taken most seriously―or at least, deemed too important to be left to the artist.