I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called … - Charles Jencks

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You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

Charles Jencks

I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse. ' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.

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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3. 32 p. m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

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Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

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If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

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