Multiform : Architecture in an Age of Transition.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Guest-Editors -- Introduction: What is Multiform? -- In an Age of Transition -- Learning from Postmodernism -- Adhocism for the 21st Century -- Multiform is not a Style -- Notes -- Aiming for Personality: An Exercise of Continuous Improvisation -- Assimilating Fragments and References -- Taking Things Seriously -- Notes -- PoMo, Collageand Citation: Notes Towards an Etiology of Chunkiness -- The Modern Chunkiness of Mechanical Modularity -- The Postmodern Chunkiness of HistoricistCitation, Fragmentation and Intertextuality -- Notes -- Nothing New: Referencing, Remixing and Sampling -- Postmodern Roots -- Newness -- Everyone Copies -- Notes -- Marni Sweaters and Rugby Shirts: Colour Blocking in Architecture -- Pre-Teen Uniforms: Rugby Shirts of the 1980S -- Stripes -- Blocks -- Chunks -- Shaking Things Up -- Note -- More With Less: Responding to Austerity -- Built to Last -- Reuse, Reframe and Repurpose -- A Study in Generosity -- Reappropriation, Juxtaposition and Assemblage -- The Birth and Rebirth of a Movement: Charles Jencks's Postmodern Odyssey in AD -- Radical Eclecticism -- Postmodern Classicism -- Neo-Vernacular -- Deconstructivism -- Multiform -- Notes -- Pluralism and the Urban Landscape: Towards a Strategic Eclecticism -- Composition -- Mannerism -- Strategic Eclecticism -- Notes -- Architecturez: Rackz, Shackz and the Opportunities In Between -- Death to Heterogeneity -- Designing the Un-Designed -- Familial Traits -- Notes -- Exploring, Building,Completing: Context and Craft -- Exploring -- Building -- Completing -- Context and Craft -- Notes -- Screen's Domesticity: From the Postmodern House to Our House -- The VR House -- Ubiquity -- Notes -- Taking Joy Seriously: An Interview with Artist and Designer Camille Walala -- Working Practices -- Colour in Context -- Note.

Perceiving Postmodernism: Learning from London's Marshlands -- Thanks for the Blinds -- A Monumental Joke -- Back to the Future -- Against Hubris -- Notes -- Working in Public: Political and Design Inheritances in the Work of DK-CM -- Public Values -- Inheritances -- Public Projects -- Notes -- The Joy of Architecture: Evoking Emotions Through Building -- Then -- Now -- Colour -- Curation -- Content -- Agenda -- Notes -- Remembering in Colour: In Conversation with Artist / Designer -- Learning -- Culture -- Inclusivity -- From Another Perspective: Iconic Iconoclasm: David Connor -- Detritus Chic to Eccentric Camp -- Villa Zapu: A Heady Mix -- The Romance of Ruins -- Notes -- Contributors -- What is Architectural Design? -- Architectural Design -- Forthcoming AD Titles -- EULA.

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