The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-modernism

Jencks, Charles

ISBN 10: 0300095139 / ISBN 13: 9780300095135

Editore: Yale University Press, 2002

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Codice articolo CHL9275700

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.

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.

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Titolo: The New Paradigm in Architecture: The ...
Casa editrice: Yale University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Used; Very Good