Even during its heyday, postmodernism was highly controversial in many
aspects. Hardly a question was left undebated: What is its relationship
to modernity? To which understanding of modernity did it refer in the
first place? Did it mark an epochal break or even the end of history?
Does it exist at all or will it dissolve into a variety of contradictory individual
phenomena upon closer examination? Now that this fruitful and tense
epoch is about to become historical, such questions can be formulated
from a different perspective by a new generation of architects and theorists.
The time is ripe for a critical reassessment of postmodern architecture
and urbanism. The contributions to this volume take such a reassessment
as the starting point for reflections on the current situation of architecture
and for projections of future developments. A second volume will follow
shortly to shed light on further facets of this ongoing discourse.
With contributions by Kirsten Angermann, Oleksandr Anisimov &
Svitlana Shlipchenko, Dorian Bianco, Tigran Harutyunyan, Christian Sander,
Eva Sollgruber, Erik Wegerhoff and Tobias Zervosen.
Curated by Sonja Hnilica and Riklef Rambow