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- catalog abstract ""This international survey documents the state of architecture at the beginning of the nineties, and provides an insight into the recent past and possible future shape of our homes and cities. Charles Jencks, the critic responsible for identifying the diverse trends which have emerged in the wake of modernism, discusses late-modern, post-modern and new modern architecture. This includes the pioneering work in America, Europe and Japan of leading achitects Norman Foster, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozsaki, Philip Johnson, Rob Krier, Richard Rogers, James Stirling and Robert Venturi, as well as many more examples by promising architects of a younger generation. A comprehensive reference section containing biographies of more than 100 architects, a selected bibliography of further reading and a full index completes this study. This first paperback edition has been brought up to date by the inclusion of a new introduction, new colour photographs and revised biographies."--Amazon.".
- catalog contributor b1149816.
- catalog contributor b1149817.
- catalog contributor b1149818.
- catalog created "c1982.".
- catalog date "1982".
- catalog date "c1982.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1982.".
- catalog description ""This international survey documents the state of architecture at the beginning of the nineties, and provides an insight into the recent past and possible future shape of our homes and cities. Charles Jencks, the critic responsible for identifying the diverse trends which have emerged in the wake of modernism, discusses late-modern, post-modern and new modern architecture. This includes the pioneering work in America, Europe and Japan of leading achitects Norman Foster, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozsaki, Philip Johnson, Rob Krier, Richard Rogers, James Stirling and Robert Venturi, as well as many more examples by promising architects of a younger generation. A comprehensive reference section containing biographies of more than 100 architects, a selected bibliography of further reading and a full index completes this study. This first paperback edition has been brought up to date by the inclusion of a new introduction, new colour photographs and revised biographies."--Amazon.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 336-337.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Charles Jencks : The evolution and mutation of modern architecture -- Late-modernism / Charles Jencks : Late-modern departures --Slick-tech: the rhetoric of corporate proficiency -- Twenties revivalism: the white, ideal pavilions of private life -- Late-modern space: a sign of agnosticism -- Post-modernism / Charles Jencks : From historicism to radical eclecticism -- From straight revivalism to distorted ornament -- Neo-vernacular: the sign of an instant community -- Ad hoc and urbanist: toward a city with memory -- Metaphor and metaphysics: the quandary of content -- Post-modern space: layering, elision, and surprise -- Alternatives / William Chaikin : Introduction -- The commune builders -- Great circles -- Handmades -- Nomadic designs -- Alternative technologies -- Beyond the fringe -- Appendix : Biographies of the architects.".
- catalog extent "359 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0810906694 :".
- catalog issued "1982".
- catalog issued "c1982.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Abrams,".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Modern 20th century.".
- catalog subject "NA680 .J448 1982".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Charles Jencks : The evolution and mutation of modern architecture -- Late-modernism / Charles Jencks : Late-modern departures --Slick-tech: the rhetoric of corporate proficiency -- Twenties revivalism: the white, ideal pavilions of private life -- Late-modern space: a sign of agnosticism -- Post-modernism / Charles Jencks : From historicism to radical eclecticism -- From straight revivalism to distorted ornament -- Neo-vernacular: the sign of an instant community -- Ad hoc and urbanist: toward a city with memory -- Metaphor and metaphysics: the quandary of content -- Post-modern space: layering, elision, and surprise -- Alternatives / William Chaikin : Introduction -- The commune builders -- Great circles -- Handmades -- Nomadic designs -- Alternative technologies -- Beyond the fringe -- Appendix : Biographies of the architects.".
- catalog title "Architecture today / Charles Jencks ; with a contribution by William Chaitkin.".
- catalog type "text".