I found the article by Jencks very interesting and a new way to look at Postmodernism. While I was abroad last semester I took an Art and Architecture class and studied a lot of Roman and Greek architecture. The different styles and techniques are all so unique and beautiful and are a good representation of what life was like during those eras. The 11 different cannons of postmodern architecture had a lot of quotes that caught my attention. “Instead of a perfectly finished totality ‘where no part can be added or subtracted except for the worse’ we find the ‘difficult whole’ or the ‘fragmented unity” (Jencks 281). This movement involved the mixing of different ideas and styles and creating something new and more beautiful. This is a very postmodern idea and is much like bricolage, mashing up different genres or themes to create something completely different and unique. Another example of this was represented in the section on radical eclecticism describing James Stirling’s addition to the Tate Gallery. Stirling used so many different mediums to create his masterpiece, from stone, to brick, to glass. The “disharmonious harmony” makes the building so much more special than if it were just to follow one specific style. Radical eclectism is defined as “the mixing of different languages to engage different taste cultures and define different functions according to their appropriate mood” (Jencks 283). The mixing of different ideas and cultures is so much more appealing to others and has much more meaning and power behind it. While abroad I was able to spend a lot of time in the Tate Gallery and it really is an amazing place, it was my favorite museum in London.