TY - BOOK AU - Jencks,Charles TI - The story of post-modernism: five decades of the ironic, iconic and critical in architecture SN - 9780470688953 (pbk.) U1 - 724.6 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chichester PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Architecture, Postmodern KW - BUEsh KW - ENGARC KW - October2016 KW - Reading book N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index ; Post-modernism resurgent? -- The perfect storm of post-modernism -- Searching for difference, finding commonality -- Towards a critical modernism -- Complexity and nature's ornament -- The coming of the cosmic icons N2 - In The story of post-modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on post-modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of post-modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes ER -