The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-Modernism - Brossura

Jencks, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0300095139 ISBN 13: 9780300095135

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

The New Paradigm in Architecture tells the story of a movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty years. Starting with the counter culture of the 1960s and the call for a complex urbanism by Jane Jacobs and a complex architecture by Robert Venturi, it shows how such demands started to be realised by the 1990s, aided by computer design. Often curved, warped and fractal in shape, it is more convivial, sensuous and articulate than the modern architecture it challenges. Carried forward by architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Eisenman, it has also become a leading approach in many schools and offices around the world. The computer is now at its heart but its history, which Charles Jencks traces, is built on the desire for an architecture that communicates with its users, and one based on the heterogeneity of our cities and global culture.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Charles Jencks is an architectural historian, designer, landscape architect and the author of numerous books on contemporary architecture and Post-Modernism. He was formerly visiting professor at UCLA.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300095139
• ISBN 13: 9780300095135
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile