He may have been the first architect to use the term "postmodernism", but more recently he has used the phrase "modern traditionalist" to describe his work.
Butler herself rejects the term "postmodernism" as too vague to be meaningful.
The book introduced the term 'postmodernism', which was previously only used by art critics, in philosophy with the following quotation: "Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives".
Other writers regard musical modernism as an historical period extending from about 1890 to 1930, and apply the term "postmodernism" to the period after that year (Karolyi 1994, 135; Meyer 1994, 331-32).
It has been suggested that the term "postmodernism" is a mere buzzword that means nothing.
It is worth trying to retain, in the ways McHale suggests, limits to the meaning of the term postmodernism.
I saw the architect Charles Jencks in the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibit - 'hey,' I thought, 'the man who invented the term postmodernism looking at some postmodernist stuff'.
The term postmodernism is one of the latest bits of esthetic bureaucratese intended to obscure clear thinking and promote equivocation.
To a large extent, fabulism and postmodernism coincide; John Barth, for example, was labeled a fabulist until the term "postmodernism" was coined.
That relatively new term postmodernism (how quickly it's becoming deadly) has its own prescriptions for how artists should work with the past: they should appropriate, parody, fracture and collage it.