"Social content is the third concern that underlies our
common definition of radical, framed in several ways. It refers to relating buildings to their context not just fitting in, but what I have called 'contextual counterpoint'." - Jencks #architecturalhistory
"Post-Modernism is based on multiple codes, combining Modern universal technology and local culture, in a recognizable 'double-coding', its characteristic style" - Po-Mo #architecturalhistory
“When Post-Modernism was defined in other arts, sciences and cultural forms, it was understood as ‘subversion from within’ the establishment, using the reigning voice to send a different message.” - Jencks #architecturalhistory
“Behind the architecture and the arts there are four large forces- social, economic, technical, and ecological- that have shaped this 50-year period and in another 50 years historians will no doubt understand this background much better than we do” -Po-Mo
"On a serious level, the moral failure of Modernism had evolved from complicity with totalitarian regimes into complicity with reigning power structures" - Po-Mo #architecturalhistory
"There are no perfectly and completely Baroque and Rococo buildings because the category is always more capacious and contradictory than any single structure" - Jencks #architecturalhistory
"Other successful cities have moderated their dynamic
and destabilizing tendencies with pushes for justice and equality..." - Shane #architecturalhistory
"A true urban ecology provides such feedback mechanisms to safeguard its future and allows for the response of those who want to climb out of poverty" - Shane #architecturalhistory
“This reversal of normal processes opens the way for a new hybrid urbanism, with dense clusters of activity and the reconstruction of the natural ecology, starting more ecologically balanced, inner-city urban form in the void”- Shane #architecturalhistory