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The Iconic Building

Charles Jencks

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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Charles Jencks

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003

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The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture

Charles Jencks; Maggie Keswick; Alison Hardie

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Language of Post-Modern Architecture

Charles Jencks

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1991, Softcover - 1987, 1977, 1977, 1977, 1977

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

Charles Jencks

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Civic Builders

Charles Jencks; C. W. Fentress; Donlyn Lyndon; Robert Campbell; John Morris Dixon; Coleman Coker; Curtis W. Fentress

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Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture

Charles Jencks; Lecorbusier

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Architecture 2000 and Beyond: Success in the Art of Prediction

Charles Jencks

This classic of prediction, written in 1969, has now been brought up to date, the prophecies judges, and the omens extended to 2030.The success rate of Jencks? forecasts and his method of combining expert prediction with structural analysis make this book an important contribution to the art of conjecture. Not only did he predict the a series of innovations that have changed the world, such as the Internet, but he identified six main architectural traditions that continuously transform over time. This provides a method of gauging what are likely to be the future movements in architecture, a useful and fascinating tool for speculation. No other book of forecasting is like it, a hypertext of retrospection, judgement and further prophecy.

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Ecstatic Architecture: The Surprising Link

Charles Jencks

Today there is a broad trend towards an architecture that could be called ecstatic - partly motivated by pure architectural ideas pushed to their limits and a shift from functional concerns to sensual ones. Ecstatic Architecture is stimulating, holistic and overpowering; its primary contemporary monument is Frank Gehry's New Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa.

Ecstatic Architecture has opened up architectural thought and made links with historic building. The term encompasses buildings widely distant in function and time, from cave art to the new cinema centre in Dresden, from explicitly erotic architecture to buildings which have a spiritual role, from conceptual and cybernetic artefacts to pure architecture. It suggests comparisons between the current practice of leading architects such as Hans Hollein, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Nigel Coates and Egyptian, Baroque and Art Nouveau architecture.

Essays examining the historic and philosophical implications are complemented by major projects in the genre by Frank Gehry, Will Alsop, Ron Arad, Odile Decq, Eric Owen Moss and Shin Takamatsu. Major rhetorical tropes of Ecstatic Architecture are clarified in two extensive photo essays by Charles Jencks. The surprise is that Ecstatic Architecture links such widely divergent strands and forces us to reconsider architecture in a new key.

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Tom Kovac

Charles Jencks; Aaron Betsky; Leon Van Schaik

Tom Kovac is an Australian architect whose star is rising quickly. His fresh, dynamic work denies the architecture of planes and right angles -- there are few straight lines in his designs -- and injects the program into an obsession with pure form. His fluid spaces are emotionally charged and have recently been published extensively around the world. Projects in this first monograph on the architect's work include a variety of retail, commercial and residential designs, all in Australia.

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Theories and Manifestos of Contemporary Architecture

Charles Jencks

The last forty years have seen an outburst of theories and manifestoes which explore the possibilities of architecture: its language, evolution and social relevance. With many 'crises in architecture' and the obvious urban and ecological problems, Modernism has been criticised, questioned, overthrown, extended, subverted and revivified - not a peaceful time for architectural thought and production. The result has been a cascade of new theories, justifications and recipes for building.

This anthology, edited by the well-known historian and critic Charles Jencks, and the urbanist and theorist Karl Kropf, collects the main texts which define these changes. Essential for the student and practitioner alike, it presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers and gurus. These show that the Modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological Post-Modernism; a High-Tech and sculptural Late Modernism; and a deconstructive, subversive New Modernism.

Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-Modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books.

Highly informative and richly illustrated with over forty drawings and photographs, this volume is a vital learning and teaching tool for all those interested in the philosophies of contemporary architecture.

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The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic How Complexity Science Is Changing Architecture and Culture

Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks has the uncanny capacity to announce a new movement in architecture before it has begun. With Post-Modernism, he was looking to the past. Now, for the first time, with his new book on morphogenesis he is taking a look at the future. There is no question that his argument will have an important critical effect on architecture at the beginning of the new millennium. Peter Eisenman. Architect A new paradigm is sweeping through science, changing both our view of the universe and of mankind. Charles Jencks is one of a handful of thinkers with the courage to embrace the emerging paradigm and interpret it architecturally. This inspired synthesis of art, design, science and philosophy charts a bold new course not only for architecture, but for Post-Modern thought. Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Adelaide, author of The Cosmic Blueprint, Superforce, The Mind of God and other books on contemporary science. Who else could have written a book that opens up such cosmic perspectives and still make such neat, sharply focused comments on particular architects and particular styles of architecture? Who else could range with such zest, ease and elegance from Chaos to Bruce Goff, from Coleridge to Frank Gehry, from Complexity Theory to Green Buildings? The old question of in which style should we build can never be addressed in the same way again. Charles Jencks has brought purpose back into architecture. His teleology may transcend what architects are used to, but Jencks manages to make far more sense out of our contemporary architectural dilemmas than practically all the other books in the RIBA book shop. Francis Duffy, Chairman of DEGW International Ltd

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Other editions: Softcover - 1997, Softcover - 1995

Frank O. Gehry: Individual Imagination and Cultural Conservatism

Charles Jencks; Frank O. Gehry; Robert Maxwell; Jeffrey Kipnis

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Heteropolis: Los Angeles The Riots and the Strange Beauty of Hetero-Architecture

Charles Jencks

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1993

Post-Modern Triumphs in London

Charles Jencks

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The New Moderns: From Late-To Neo-Modernism

Charles Jencks

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What Is Post-Modernism?

Charles Jencks

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Architecture Today

Charles Jencks

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Other editions: 1982

The Architecture of Democracy: The Phoenix Municipal Government Center Design Competition

Charles Jencks

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The Prince, the Architects, and New Wave Monarchy

Charles Jencks

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Post-Modernism & Discontinuity

Charles Jencks

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Modern Movements in Architecture

Charles Jencks

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Other editions: 1985, 1973, Softcover - 1973, 1973

Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture

Charles Jencks

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Designing a House

Charles Jencks

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Other editions: 1986

Kings of Infinite Space: Frank Lloyd Wright & Michael Graves

Charles Jencks

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