Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going? What is Post-Modernism? - Softcover

Ian Buruma, Author and Henry R Luce Professor at Bard College: ‘Charles Jencks does not necessarily court your agreement; he wants you to think, and then think again. He is an enemy of received opinions and sloppy clichés. That is what makes his latest book so provocative and such a delight to read.’

Felipe Fernandez Armesto, Professor of History, Tufts University: ‘Charles Jencks never stops refreshing our minds. Now – on a subject on which his previous work seemed insuperable – he breaks new ground. He redefines postmodernism’s place in modernity and, with his usual wit, clarity and fluency, he explains how and why the grandest of grand narratives – our integrated history of the universe – survives and thrives.’

 Rem Koolhaas, Architect and Author: ‘That Critical Modernism is a tautology turned into an oxymoron is perhaps its greatest strength: as Jencks argues, the critical and the modern certainly need each other.’

"Thirty years on from the publication of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, its author explains why we're all modernists now." (BDonline, April 2007)

"Charles Jencks has revamped his seminal tome on postmodernism". (Icon Magazine, June 2007)