Johannesburg-based architect Hilton Judin is an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture & Planning at Wits University. He is a curator and co-editor of the exhibition and book blank ____ Architecture, apartheid and after. He is the author of Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital, editor of Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins, and co-editor of In Whose Place? Confronting Vestiges of Colonialism and Apartheid.

"While postmodernism in architecture has become historical, its history, resonances, and after-effects are not yet over. This insight becomes palpable as Hilton Judin brilliantly contextualizes the rise of postmodernist architecture in South Africa within the decades long struggle against segregation, forced removals, and apartheid in a disintegrating society. Transforming North American models in the urban South African context, postmodern architecture functioned either as nostalgic ornament or anxious defiance, reflecting conflictual social consciences and ideologies. A must read for anyone interested in the deep structures of the post-apartheid present."Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, and author of After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism."South African architecture – colonial, deco and high modernist – have produced iconic reminders of its complex past. In this remarkable treatment of post-modernism, our foremost interpreter of South African architecture, Hilton Judin interprets this style as the ‘last salves lamentably applied to a wounded nation’."Saul Dubow, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Cambridge University, and author of Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa."While South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle taught how to dismantle racism to the entire world and broke new ground in transitional justice and the expansion of human rights, this book demonstrates that architects’ turn to postmodernism during these years was a desperate attempt to perpetuate white dominion and urban segregation. Well-known architects and events long associated with postmodernism such as Denise Scott-Brown, 1980 Venice Biennale and CREDO magazine appear in new light when viewed from the perspective of Apartheid in South Africa, while local planning and design practices demonstrate architects’ choice between ignorance and complicity in oppressive regimes or resistance that fostered history-making change."Esra Akcan, Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, and author of Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster.

• 1. Postponing the Future 2. The Neon Strip and Return to the Street 3. Impositions of an Unheroic Monumentality 4. Preservation of the Past, Destruction of the Present 5. Places Without Belonging 6. Consulado da Eclectica 7. Ad hoc, “As Found”, and Appropriate Architecture 8. Limits of Emancipatory Practice 9. Disappearing Towers 10. “A Great Variety of Morbid Symptoms”

Johannesburg-based architect Hilton Judin is an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture & Planning at Wits University. He is a curator and co-editor of the exhibition and book blank ____ Architecture, apartheid and after. He is the author of Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital, editor of Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins, and co-editor of In Whose Place? Confronting Vestiges of Colonialism and Apartheid.

"While postmodernism in architecture has become historical, its history, resonances, and after-effects are not yet over. This insight becomes palpable as Hilton Judin brilliantly contextualizes the rise of postmodernist architecture in South Africa within the decades long struggle against segregation, forced removals, and apartheid in a disintegrating society. Transforming North American models in the urban South African context, postmodern architecture functioned either as nostalgic ornament or anxious defiance, reflecting conflictual social consciences and ideologies. A must read for anyone interested in the deep structures of the post-apartheid present."Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, and author of After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism."South African architecture – colonial, deco and high modernist – have produced iconic reminders of its complex past. In this remarkable treatment of post-modernism, our foremost interpreter of South African architecture, Hilton Judin interprets this style as the ‘last salves lamentably applied to a wounded nation’."Saul Dubow, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Cambridge University, and author of Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa."While South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle taught how to dismantle racism to the entire world and broke new ground in transitional justice and the expansion of human rights, this book demonstrates that architects’ turn to postmodernism during these years was a desperate attempt to perpetuate white dominion and urban segregation. Well-known architects and events long associated with postmodernism such as Denise Scott-Brown, 1980 Venice Biennale and CREDO magazine appear in new light when viewed from the perspective of Apartheid in South Africa, while local planning and design practices demonstrate architects’ choice between ignorance and complicity in oppressive regimes or resistance that fostered history-making change."Esra Akcan, Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, and author of Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster.

• 1. Postponing the Future 2. The Neon Strip and Return to the Street 3. Impositions of an Unheroic Monumentality 4. Preservation of the Past, Destruction of the Present 5. Places Without Belonging 6. Consulado da Eclectica 7. Ad hoc, “As Found”, and Appropriate Architecture 8. Limits of Emancipatory Practice 9. Disappearing Towers 10. “A Great Variety of Morbid Symptoms”

Johannesburg-based architect Hilton Judin is an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture & Planning at Wits University. He is a curator and co-editor of the exhibition and book blank ____ Architecture, apartheid and after. He is the author of Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital, editor of Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins, and co-editor of In Whose Place? Confronting Vestiges of Colonialism and Apartheid.

"While postmodernism in architecture has become historical, its history, resonances, and after-effects are not yet over. This insight becomes palpable as Hilton Judin brilliantly contextualizes the rise of postmodernist architecture in South Africa within the decades long struggle against segregation, forced removals, and apartheid in a disintegrating society. Transforming North American models in the urban South African context, postmodern architecture functioned either as nostalgic ornament or anxious defiance, reflecting conflictual social consciences and ideologies. A must read for anyone interested in the deep structures of the post-apartheid present."Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, and author of After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism."South African architecture – colonial, deco and high modernist – have produced iconic reminders of its complex past. In this remarkable treatment of post-modernism, our foremost interpreter of South African architecture, Hilton Judin interprets this style as the ‘last salves lamentably applied to a wounded nation’."Saul Dubow, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Cambridge University, and author of Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa."While South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle taught how to dismantle racism to the entire world and broke new ground in transitional justice and the expansion of human rights, this book demonstrates that architects’ turn to postmodernism during these years was a desperate attempt to perpetuate white dominion and urban segregation. Well-known architects and events long associated with postmodernism such as Denise Scott-Brown, 1980 Venice Biennale and CREDO magazine appear in new light when viewed from the perspective of Apartheid in South Africa, while local planning and design practices demonstrate architects’ choice between ignorance and complicity in oppressive regimes or resistance that fostered history-making change."Esra Akcan, Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, and author of Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster.

• 1. Postponing the Future 2. The Neon Strip and Return to the Street 3. Impositions of an Unheroic Monumentality 4. Preservation of the Past, Destruction of the Present 5. Places Without Belonging 6. Consulado da Eclectica 7. Ad hoc, “As Found”, and Appropriate Architecture 8. Limits of Emancipatory Practice 9. Disappearing Towers 10. “A Great Variety of Morbid Symptoms”