Modern Movements in Architecture: Second Edition - Softcover

Jencks, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014023005X ISBN 13: 9780140230055

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1987

Synopsis

This introduction to modern architecture, from 1920 to the present, includes a section on late- and post-modernism. The book describes a critical point in the history of modern architecture.

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Review:

Although this is not a new book, it is still one of the best introductions to modern architecture available on the market. Infinitely accessible and informative, Charles Jencks is sensible and bodacious in his far-ranging discussions of the architecture of this century. This small paperback, which includes 236 illustrations, is invaluable in its assessment of the history of modern architecture and its frank criticism of the architects of our time, as well as its speculations, predictions, and guidelines for the future of the discipline. This edition includes a special postscript on Late-Modernism and Post-Modernism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 014023005X
• ISBN 13: 9780140230055
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448