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The story of post-modernism : five decades of the ironic and critical in architecture / Charles Jencks.

By: Jencks, Charles [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780470688953 (paperback); 0470688955 (paperback).Subject(s): Architecture, Postmodern | Architecture, Modern -- 20th centuryAdditional physical formats: Electronic version: The story of post-modernism: five decades of the ironic and critical in architectureDDC classification: 724.6 Also available in electronic form.
Contents:
Post-modernism resurgent? -- The perfect storm of post-modernism -- Searching for difference, finding commonality -- Towards a critical modernism -- Complexity and nature's ornament -- The coming of the cosmic icons.
Subject: 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Post-modernism resurgent? -- The perfect storm of post-modernism -- Searching for difference, finding commonality -- Towards a critical modernism -- Complexity and nature's ornament -- The coming of the cosmic icons.

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.

MTU CORK Module ARCH 6078 - Core reading.

Also available in electronic form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface Post-Modernism Resurgent? (p. 8)
  • The Back Story
  • Some Debts Acknowledged
  • And Especially Madelon
  • Part I The Perfect Storm of Post-Modernism (p. 16)
  • The Moral Failures of Modernism
  • The Recurrent Deaths of Modernism
  • The Triumph of Nothingness
  • Revisionists and Le Corbusier Lead the Revolt
  • Complexity and Double-Coding - the First Post-Modern Synthesis
  • The Shape of History - Big, Medium and Small Waves
  • Part II Searching for Difference, Finding Commonality (p. 50)
  • Global Pluralism
  • Radical Eclecticism, the First Response to Homogeneity
  • Contextual Counterpoint
  • Post-Modern Classicism - the Ironic International Style
  • Media Events and Money
  • A Diversion on Cost and Taste
  • James Stirling Synthesises Contextualism and Pluralism
  • The Complexity Paradigm Extended
  • Modernists Becoming Post-Modern
  • Time-Binding Opposites
  • Part III Towars a Critical Modernism (p. 114)
  • What is a City? A Complex Adaptive System
  • Heterotopias and the Heteropolis
  • Expressively Green and Inexpensive
  • Rem Koolhass, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito and the Porous Route Building
  • Peter Eisenman, the Landform and the Critical-Creative
  • Part IV Complexity and Nature's Ornament (p. 160)
  • The Complexity Paradigm
  • Fractal Architecture and the Metaphysics of Seamless Continuity
  • Opening Up the White Cube
  • Four Degrees of Ornament
  • Part V The Coming of the Cosmic Icons (p. 200)
  • The Iconic Building and its Discontents
  • TheBilbao Effect
  • Multiple Meaning and Enigmatic Signifiers
  • Worthy Icons?
  • Paranoia, Veiled Themes and Cosmic Iconology
  • Premature Conclusion: the Iconology of Post-Modernism?
  • Notes (p. 248)
  • A Post-Modern Bibliography (p. 260)
  • Picture Credits (p. 266)
  • Index (p. 268)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Architectural critic and historian Charles Jencks is the author of, among many other titles, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture (Doubleday 50M copies sold to date)., The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, and The Architecture of the Jumping Universe.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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