This special issue provides a comprehensive survey of the Postmodern and other non-Modernist architectural movements in the U.S. during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It features projects and essays by architects who were defining the contemporary American architectural scene.
This is the March 1981 Special Edition of the journal A+U (Kenchiku-to-toshi). The text is bilingual (Japanese and English). It is a major publication from the early Postmodern era, defining the state of American architecture following the Modernist movement.

The A+U March 1981 Special Edition: "American Architecture: After Modernism" is a landmark publication that captures the critical moment when American design was officially moving away from High Modernism.

Guest-edited by influential architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern, the volume serves as a comprehensive visual and critical document of the Postmodern (PoMo) sensibility and other contemporary movements. It features an array of American architects and firms who were championing a return to historical reference, ornament, contextuality, and narrative in their work. The publication helped to define and disseminate the projects of a generation of architects, many of whom would become leading global figures in the subsequent decades.