One of the key proponents of Postmodernism—the irreverent movement that emerged around 1970, shattering established notions about art and design—was Charles Jencks, the late architectural historian ...

The architect and theorist Robert Venturi played an important role in the history of the field as one of the first authors to write on the subject of postmodernism in his book Complexity and ...

Editor’s Note: Owen Hopkins is senior curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum, and author of “Architecture and Freedom: searching for Agency in a Changing World.” Postmodernism is back. We see it in the ...

I once asked a group of my students if they knew what the term postmodernism meant: one replied that it’s when you put everything in quotation marks. It wasn’t such a bad answer, because concepts such ...

The modern world died at 3.32pm in St Louis, Missouri, on 15 July 1972. The dynamiting of the notorious Pruitt Igoe housing scheme was a noise that resonated around the world, at least according to ...

Postmodern theory may be the most loathed concept ever to have emerged from academia. Developed within literature and philosophy departments in the 1970s, it supposedly told us that facts were ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The wonderful thing about postmodernism is what Charles Jencks, the writer and designer who pretty much popularised ...

The Sony building stands at the corner of Madison Avenue and 56th Street in midtown Manhattan. At 197m, it's a little higher than its immediate neighbours, but there are at least 60 taller buildings ...

Architecture has never been confined to the act of building. It constantly negotiates between material practice and intellectual reflection, yet throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ...