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.

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.