The First International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, was meant to celebrate Post-Modernism – ‘the end of prohibitionism’ for Paolo Portoghesi, or the ‘triumph of communication’ for Charles Jencks.

To be in New York City in 1980 was to watch one order fall apart, literally in the neglected buildings and streets of the city, while new orders emerged.

Some time in 1969, the 30-year-old critic and historian Charles Jencks made a blobby diagram that would become as iconic as any drawing of a building or city by an architect.

In January 1980, China Academy of Building Research member Yang Yun introduced Chinese readers of Architectural Journal to the term ‘Post-Modernism’

...Post-Modernism became widely interpreted as a style of Pinochet’s time.

1980 was a turning point in the history of state socialism in eastern Europe.

In our chronogram, we speak of how past and present meet for a posthumous dance.

The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are pleased to announce the 2022 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award is Forensic Architecture

What is the role of Writing in Architecture and what can it do for Architectural Culture? Can Writing become the medium for Architecture?

What is the purpose of the Garden? To refresh the heart. How? Through sense and imagination; engage emotions and mind.

‘Now that Post-Modern architecture has triumphed around the world, many people have declared it dead. This, the fate of all successful movements, is something to be celebrated.’

‘Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?’

Post-Modernism was a cognitive-affective challenge and opportunity, at once a new way of thinking and new way of being.

What is Post-Modernism? That’s a tough one… famously so. But here’s an equally good question: what isn’t it?

If necessity is the mother of invention, then combining previous systems is the father, and adhocism is the creative offspring.