"This standard work on the postmodern architecture of the past 25 years documents a rich and controversial period. It provides a fascinating, clear, and provocative definition of the phenomena of postmodernism, particularly in relation to the major ideas of modernism. The more than 500 illustrations, including 96 in color, are in themselves a substantial record of the aesthetic preoccupations of postmodernist architects, their patrons, and their detractors....