后现代建筑理论的历史蜕变——查尔斯·詹克斯《后现代主义的故事》书评

The Metamorphosis of a Theory of Post-Modern Architecture A Book Review of The Story of Post-Modernism by Charles Jencks

以查尔斯·詹克斯的《后现代主义的故事》中文版为主要文本,结合该书作者之前的其他"后现代"建筑论著,以书评的方式对詹克斯的建筑"后现代主义"理论的历史演变进行梳理,对其中的主要观点提出质疑。进一步提出,作为一种以"宏大叙事"为基础的理论,詹克斯的"后现代主义"本质上并非他自己声称的"多元主义"。

As a book review of the Chinese edition of The Story of Post-Modernism by Charles Jencks, this paper provides an examination and critique of Jencks’ theory of architectural Post-Modernism, not only in form of this last book but also his earlier major works. It further points out that, because of its nature of "grand narrative", Jencks’ Post-Modernism is anything but pluralism that he often has claimed.