POSTMODERNISM REDUX

摘要

Postmodernism is back, but this time it's radical! According to Charles Jencks, who is half responsible for editing the Sept/Oct issue of Architectural Design, it never disappeared, but has merely been lurking in the shadows (or the closet) of late 20th and early 21st-century Modernists. The issue has a surreptitious agenda of outing architects as unlikely as Carsuo St John, Foreign Office Architects and even David Chipperfield as closet Postmodernists. But of course, like everything that the other half of the editors (Sam Jacob, Sean Griffiths and Charles Holland of FAT) of this issue do, there's a serious point propping up the facade.