Birthday Boy and his POMO POSSY "We run these streets"

Left: The Old Town Hall, Celebration, FL, Architect Phillip Johnson

Right: US Post Office, Celebration, FL, Architect Michael Graves

On October 13th, 2016, I celebrated my birthday in the most appropriate way I could think of... I took a pilgrimage to the post modern mecca known to most as Celebration, FL. In general, Florida is full of tacky, low brow, misunderstood interpretations of post modernist architecture. Though, Celebration offers a superb concentration of well crafted, pastiche beauties, most gems situated along or adjacent to Market Street (Celebration's main street USA), with exception to Rossi's Celebration Place.

The town center is quite quaint, cute according to my grandparents, my sister is wild for the music playing along the streets. This charm, inherent in the master plan by Robert A.M. Stern and Jaquelin Robertson is well protected by the playful nature of The POMO POSSY, a name I gave to the notable architects found in Celebration. Pulling affect and sentiment from a specific time in American history, the neo-traditional nature of Celebration recalls highly specific, formal aesthetic attributes associated with post war suburban landscapes. If familiar with the area, it's somewhat fitting for Celebration to adopt such a period synonymous suburban white flight and rejection of undesirable environments for the area surrounding is kinda blah, hosting obnoxious tourist shops, wizard statues, off market clearance stores and smoke shops [The list literally goes on and on]. 

So... The POMO POSSY, Good name, catchy, I know. For some reason I envision them as a newly reformed music supergroup, and Celebration is their reunion album tour after numerous solo albums and falling outs. It makes sense, you have Johnson and Graves chumming it up by the bakery, and Pelli doing his own thing down by the water (Pelli strikes me as the second guitarist tin the group, the one that never gets to rival solos with the other guitarist but is third wheel to the lead singer) Stern clearly the drummer for he kept the beat strong and holds the tempo of the song together. Rossi holding his own as the bassist, bold on stage, making statements. 

Celebration Place, Celebration, FL, Architect Aldo Rossi