Complex sentence: Tschumi, "Architecture and Disjunction" While postmodernism returned to embrace the historical references that modernism had shunned, possibly ironically, deconstructivism rejected the postmodern acceptance of such references, as well as the idea of ornament as an after-thought or decoration.
Split into simpler sentences: Tschumi, "Architecture and Disjunction" While postmodernism returned to embrace--often slyly or ironically--the historical references that modernism had shunned, deconstructivism rejects the postmodern acceptance of such references. It also rejects the idea of ornament as an after-thought or decoration.