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142 — Charles Jencks's 'The Language of Post-Modern Architecture'

Freitag, 16. Oktober 2026 · 1 h 25

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In the final episode of our Lanuage Trilogy we talked about Charles Jencks's 'The Language of Post-Modern Architecture', first published in 1977, the book and argument developed over the course of the 1980s as ideas about post-modernism as an architectural style and set of principles formalised. We talked about Jencks's theorisation of architectural semiotics, his account of the failure of modernism and his prospectus for future architecture.

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Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.

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