It's just Jank's humor. A newly-built community in St. Louis was demolished by blasting because of its bad neighborhood and high crime rate. The blasting time was1July, 972 15 at 3: 32 pm, and Jencks made a fuss about it, trying to show that modern architecture had reached the end of its tether.

In fact, modern architecture is not what he described. Today, most architects still consider themselves as the inheritors of modern architecture.

Jencks once wrote on the title page of his doctoral thesis: If there is any mistake in this article, it is all my tutor's fault.