Short answers, pulled from the story.
Robert Venturi published Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1966 through the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This text served as a gentle manifesto for architects who felt stifled by the rigid rules of modernism.
Philip Johnson constructed the AT&T Building, now known as 550 Madison Avenue, between 1978 and 1982 to mark his turn toward postmodernism. The building features a purely decorative top modeled after Chippendale furniture which made it stand out among Manhattan's modernist skyscrapers.
Aldo Rossi won the Pritzker Prize in 1990 for works including the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Netherlands, completed in 1995. He insisted on preserving historical fabric and local traditions while criticizing rebuilding cities destroyed during World War II using only modernist styles.
Postmodern buildings embraced complexity and contradiction instead of modernist simplicity by featuring curved forms, decorative elements, asymmetry, and bright colors unrelated to structure or function. They utilized fragmentation to break large buildings into several different structures representing various functions.
Dalibor Vesely and Joseph Rykwert offered the Advanced Masters-Level Course in the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Essex between 1968 and 1978. It was the first program of its kind before MIT and Cornell created PhD programs in the mid-1970s.