Radical Post-Modernism and Content: Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas Debate the Issue

The following debate took place on 28 December 2009 between Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas, and was transcribed and edited by Eva Branscome. Jencks and Koolhaas have exchanged ideas since the late 1960s. Jencks was the one to insist that Koolhaas come to the 1980 Venice Biennale, originally entitle...

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Published in:	Architectural design Vol. 81; no. 5; pp. 32 - 45
Main Authors:	Jencks, Charles, Koolhaas, Rem
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.09.2011
Subjects:	1978 2002-5 a diamond that fell from the sky Alvaro Siza AMO AMO, Eneropa Project, April 2010 anti-skyscraper April 2010 Architecture ASEAN Big Mac sandwich diagram Breaking of Nations Bridget Riley Casa da Musica Casa da Musica, Porto, 2002‐5 CCTV building China communication Competition Competition Project for the Dutch Parliament Content Court of Human Rights dangerous optical illusion Delirious New York E-Conology Elia Zenghelis and Zaha Hadid Eneropa Project Ethylene vinyl acetates European Bar Code for the EU Exchanging Hans Ulrich Obrist Kishore Mahbubani Le Corbusier Lech Walesa Léger Mark Leonard National Gallery in Berlin New EU Flag Design new sobriety Norman Foster Ole Scheren and Cecil Balmond OMA pacman Paula Rego Porto Prince Charles Radicals Rem Koolhaas Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis and Zaha Hadid, Competition Project for the Dutch Parliament, The Hague, 1978 Richard Rogers Robert Cooper Rompuy Ronchamp Ruskin Russian architecture Seattle Public Library Second World War architecture Serpentine Gallery Stefano de Martino Strada Novissima Surrealism Television The Hague The Iconic Building: The Power of Enigma The Present and the Past TWA Terminal UN building Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture Wallace Harrison ‘anti‐skyscraper’, Content
ISSN:	0003-8504, 1554-2769, 1554-2769
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Summary:	The following debate took place on 28 December 2009 between Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas, and was transcribed and edited by Eva Branscome. Jencks and Koolhaas have exchanged ideas since the late 1960s. Jencks was the one to insist that Koolhaas come to the 1980 Venice Biennale, originally entitled ‘Post‐Modernism’. (Paolo Portoghesi invited Jencks to collaborate with him on this first Biennale before it expanded into historicism.) In January 2002, Jencks was also a judge of the competition for the CCTV Building, the headquarters for China Central Television in Beijing, discussed below. Jencks and Koolhaas continue to thrive on their discussions and disagreements. Although they have very different commitments to the issue of ‘content’, their varying positions help to clarify what is meant here by ‘radical’. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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ISSN:	0003-8504 1554-2769 1554-2769
DOI:	10.1002/ad.1293