ABSTRACT
Postmodernism was an outgrowth of modernism just as modernism itself was an outgrowth of the Enlightenment of the 19th century. Postmodernism was another one of those terms that was dicult to dene and it was as diverse and pluralistic as the theoretical frameworks from which it arose. Derived from artistic and intellectual theory, it approached traditional ideas and practices in non-traditional ways. Whereas modernism was primarily concerned with principles such as identity, unity, authority, objective knowledge, authenticity, reason, and certainty, postmodernism was often associated with dierence, plurality, non-linearity, relativism, mutability, skepticism, and social constructivism. Postmodernism in architecture, according to Charles Jencks, celebrated hybridity, which showed the mixture of opposing periods as in past, present and future.2 It possessed multiple codes combining global technology and local culture or modern architectural elements with vernacular forms.
