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Book SynopsisIn this latest issue of Architectural Design the guest editors are drawn, like the content, from contrasting tastes and generations. Charles Jencks, the definer of Post-Modernism for thirty years, discusses some issues that have re-emerged today, while the young group of British architects, FAT, argues for a particular version of RPM.
Table of Contents5 Editorial
Helen Castle
6 About the Guest-Editors
Charles Jencks, Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob
8 Spotlight
Visual highlights of the issue
14 Introduction
What is Radical Post-Modernism?
Charles Jencks
Post-Modernism: An Incomplete Project
Fat
24 Beyond the Flatline
Sam Jacob
32 Radical Post-Modernism and Content: Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas debate the issue
Jencks 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-Modernism
Fat
62 Contextual Counterpoint
Charles Jencks
68 Virtual Corpses, Figural Sections and Resonant Fields
Sean Griffiths
78 FAT Projects: Manifesting Radical Post-Modernism
Fat
90 Questions of Taste
Charles Holland
98 Historicism versus Communication: The Basic Debate of the 1980 Biennale
Léa-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 PoMo
Kester Rattenbury
114 The True Counterfeits of Banksy: Radical Walls of Complicity and Subversion
Eva Branscome
122 Re-Radicalising Post-Modernism
Fat
128 Counterpoint Not So Radical: An American Perspective
Jayne Merkel
