Date: 2 February 2012
Chair:
Will Hunter, Deputy Editor of
The Architectural Review.
Charles Jencks is a critic and landscape architect who is widely recognised as one of the fathers of Postmodernism. Jencks identified the demolition of the failed Pruitt Igoe housing project in Missouri on 15 July 1972 as the day that Modernism died. Jencks is the author of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977), What is Post-Modernism (1986) and The Story of Post-Modernism (2011), among his numerous publications.
Patrik Schumacher is company director of Zaha Hadid Architects, where he completed the Stirling Prize-winning MAXXI Centre of Contemporary Art in Rome. He is the leading figure of the nascent style of Parametricism and the author of The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volumes I and II. Schumacher is a tenured professor at Innsbruck University and co-director of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association.