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This article was originally published in Domus 610 / October 1980

The Presence of the Past
There are many misunderstandings concerning Post-Modernism no doubt caused by the success of the term, and its various, indeed erratic, usage.

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Hollein designed a set of columns that reprise the history of architecture, from the primitive garden through classical ruin to a modernist.

Possibly this ambiguity and the success are connected since the vagueness leads Modernists and anti-Modernists alike to read what they like into the labeI. The fashion can be liberating, and the vagueness and pluralism of the term equally so, especially as Modernism (and perhaps Late-Modernism?) becomes more doctrinaire and exclusivist.

For such reason I used the term in 1975 to cover six departures from Modernism (The Rise of Post-Modern Architecture, Eindhoven 1975) — departures from a shared tradition not reaction against it. The six schools of post-modernism (lower case) - historicism, neo-vernacular, adhocism, contextualism, metaphorical and metaphysical architects, and those who