Introduction

Part 1. The death of modern architecture. Crisis in architecture ; Univalent form ; Univalent formalists and inadvertent symbolists ; Univalent content

Part 2. The modes of architectural communication. Metaphor ; Words ; Syntax ; Semantics

Part 3. Post-modern architecture. Historicism, the beginnings of PM ; Straight revivalism ; Neo-vernacular ; Adhocism + Urbanist = Contextual ; Metaphor and metaphysics ; Post-modern space ; Radical eclecticism? ; Towards radical eclecticism

The synthesis : post-modern classicism. The new Tuscanism : the functional mode ; The new representation : the communicational mode ; Abstract representation : the expressive mode.