Charles Jencks on Post-Modernism
¥ In its infancy in the 1960s
Post-Modern culture was radical and critical, a minority position established, for
instance,
by Pop artists and theorists against the reduced view of Modern art, the
aestheticism reigning in such institutes as the Museum of Modern Art. In architecture,
Team Ten, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi and the Advocacy Planners attacked Ôorthodox Modern
architectureÕ for its elitism, urban destruction, bureaucracy
and simplified language.