In 1982, architectural historian and cultural theorist Charles Jencks took to the stage at RIBA to deliver a polemical and playful lecture: ‘Postmodernism: The true inheritor of Modernism’. The talk ...

In reaction to the religion, tradition and romanticism of earlier eras, ‘modernism’ was the name given to the broad movement of ideas, art and architecture that sprang from the twentieth century’s ...