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.