Radical Post-Modernism

Charles Jencks is an American architectural theorist, author and landscape architect. He has a BA in English Lit, BA and MA in Architecture and a PhD in Architectural History. He guest lectures on architecture in cultural institutions across the world.

• 5 EditorialHelen Castle6 About the Guest-EditorsCharles Jencks, Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob8 SpotlightVisual highlights of the issue14 IntroductionWhat is Radical Post-Modernism?Charles JencksPost-Modernism: An Incomplete ProjectFat24 Beyond the FlatlineSam Jacob32 Radical Post-Modernism and Content: Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas debate the issueJencks 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-ModernismFat62 Contextual CounterpointCharles Jencks68 Virtual Corpses, Figural Sections and Resonant FieldsSean Griffiths78 FAT Projects: Manifesting Radical Post-ModernismFat90 Questions of TasteCharles Holland98 Historicism versus Communication: The Basic Debate of the 1980 BiennaleLéa-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 PoMoKester Rattenbury114 The True Counterfeits of Banksy: Radical Walls of Complicity and SubversionEva Branscome122 Re-Radicalising Post-ModernismFat128 Counterpoint Not So Radical: An American PerspectiveJayne Merkel