Story of Post-Modernism

Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes. The book is highly visual. As well as providing a chronological account of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature on the major works of a given period.The first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture - other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago.An accessible narrative that will appeal to students who are new to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday in the 70s and 80s.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-09-23
Mått:183 x 244 x 15 mm
Vikt:863 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9780470688953

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Charles Jencks is an American architectural theorist, author and landscape architect. He has written widely on Post-Modern and Modern architecture. His bestselling book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) popularised Post-Modernism in architecture and made him the leading author on the subject in the 1970s and 1980s. With his late wife Maggie Keswick he is the founder of the Maggie Centres, a charity that has become influential for its enlightened provision of uplifting environments for cancer care, designed by some of the world's most renowned architects. Jencks writes and lectures internationally on architecture and landscape design.

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"The Power of the book lies not so much in the sharpness of the author's criticism of the present as in the generosity and perceptiveness of his anticipation of the future." (Architectural Review, Nov 2011) "Charles Jencks's summary of the post-modern architectural movement promises clarity and straightforwardness. There is a little of each but not too much." (Country Living, Nov 2011)

Innehållsförteckning

8 Preface Post-Modernism Resurgent?The Back StorySome Debts AcknowledgedAnd Especially Madelon16 Part I The Perfect Storm of Post-ModernismThe Moral Failures of ModernismThe Recurrent Deaths of ModernismThe Triumph of NothingnessRevisionists and Le Corbusier Lead the RevoltComplexity and Double-Coding – the First Post-Modern SynthesisThe Shape of History – Big, Medium and Small Waves50 Part II Searching for Difference, Finding CommonalityGlobal PluralismRadical Eclecticism, the First Response to HomogeneityContextual CounterpointPost-Modern Classicism – the Ironic International StyleMedia Events and MoneyA Diversion on Cost and TasteJames Stirling Synthesises Contextualism and PluralismThe Complexity Paradigm ExtendedModernists Becoming Post-ModernTime-Binding Opposites114 Part III Towards a Critical ModernismWhat is a City? A Complex Adaptive SystemHeterotopias and the HeteropolisExpressively Green and InexpensiveRem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito and the Porous Route BuildingPeter Eisenman, the Landform and the Critical-Creative160 Part IV Complexity and Nature’s OrnamentThe Complexity ParadigmFractal Architecture and the Metaphysics of Seamless ContinuityOpening Up the White CubeFour Degrees of Ornament200 Part V The Coming of the Cosmic IconsThe Iconic Building and its DiscontentsThe Bilbao EffectMultiple Meaning and Enigmatic SignifiersWorthy Icons?Paranoia, Veiled Themes and Cosmic IconologyPremature Conclusion: the Iconology of Post-Modernism?248 Notes260 A Post-Modern Bibliography266 Picture Credits268 Index