Radical Post-Modernism (Paperback)

5 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