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Radical Post-Modernism

Charles Jencks (Guest editor), Sean Griffiths (Guest editor), Charles Holland (Guest editor), Sam Jacob (Guest editor)

9780470669884, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 23 September 2011

144 pages
27.6 x 21.1 x 1 cm, 0.567 kg

In this latest issue of Architectural Design the guest editors are drawn, like the content, from contrasting tastes and generations. Charles Jencks, the definer of Post-Modernism for thirty years, discusses some issues that have re-emerged today, while the young group of British architects, FAT, argues for a particular version of RPM. An interview between Rem Koohaas and Charles Jencks discusses the influence of Post-Modernism while investigations of street art, graffiti and the 1980 Venice Biennale show that communication is at the heart of this radical strain of architecture.

  • This issue brings together an unlikely and exciting pairing of guest-editors: internationally acclaimed critic Charles Jencks, whose name became synonymous with Post-modernism in the 80s, and the dynamic architectural group, FAT.
  • Features work by: ARM, Atelier Bow Wow, Édouard François, FOA, Rem Koolhaas, John and Valerio Olgiati.

5 Editorial
Helen Castle

6 About the Guest-Editors
Charles Jencks, Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob

8 Spotlight
Visual highlights of the issue

14 Introduction

What is Radical Post-Modernism?
Charles Jencks

Post-Modernism: An Incomplete Project
Fat

24 Beyond the Flatline
Sam Jacob

32 Radical Post-Modernism and Content: Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas debate the issue
Jencks and Koolhaas exchange on Post-Modernism, preservation, the evil aura of the word ‘iconic’ and the Big Mac sandwich diagram.

46 A Field Guide to Radical Post-Modernism
Fat

62 Contextual Counterpoint
Charles Jencks

68 Virtual Corpses, Figural Sections and Resonant Fields
Sean Griffiths

78 FAT Projects: Manifesting Radical Post-Modernism
Fat

90 Questions of Taste
Charles Holland

98 Historicism versus Communication: The Basic Debate of the 1980 Biennale
Léa-Catherine Szacka The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale brought Post-Modernism to the world’s attention, but also highlighted the tensions between historicism and communication.

106 Too Good to Be True: The Survival of English Everyday PoMo
Kester Rattenbury

114 The True Counterfeits of Banksy: Radical Walls of Complicity and Subversion
Eva Branscome

122 Re-Radicalising Post-Modernism
Fat

128 Counterpoint Not So Radical: An American Perspective
Jayne Merkel

Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
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