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This international survey documents the state of architecture at the beginning of the nineties, and provides an insight into the recent past and possible future shape of our homes and cities. Charles Jencks, the critic responsible for identifying the diverse trends which have emerged in the wake of modernism, discusses late-modern, post-modern and new modern architecture. This includes the pioneering work in America, Europe and Japan of leading achitects Norman Foster, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozsaki, Philip Johnson, Rob Krier, Richard Rogers, James Stirling and Robert Venturi, as well as many more examples by promising architects of a younger generation.
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Architecture Today -- SECOND EDITION
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John Wiley & Sons, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 1854901923
ISBN 13: 9781854901927
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SECOND EDITION. SOFTBACK 1993. 2nd edition. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat spine. Flat covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner, securely boxed in cardboard. ref 56.3. Architecture Today by Charles Jencks. Published by John Wiley & Sons, London. Seller Inventory # 035061
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Condition: Sehr gut. 358 S. Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - -- LATE-MODERN DEPARTURES -- SO SLICK-TECH -- THE RHETORIC OF CORPORATE PROFICIENCY -- TWENTIES REVIVALISM -- THE WHITE, IDEAL PAVILIONS OF PRIVATE LIFE -- LATE-MODERN SPACE -- A SIGN OF AGNOSTICISM -- FROM HISTORICISM TO RADICAL ECLECTICISM -- FROM STRAIGHT REVIVALISM TO DISTORTED ORNAMENT -- NEO-VERNACULAR -- THE SIGN OF AN INSTANT COMMUNITY -- AD HOC AND URBANIST -- TOWARD A CITY WITH MEMORY -- METAPHOR AND METAPHYSICS -- THE QUANDARY OF CONTENT -- POST-MODERN SPACE -- LAYERING, ELISION, AND SURPRISE -- THE NEW EXPRESSIONISM -- MONUMENTAL EXPRESSIONISM -- INTUITIVE MODERNISM -- THE PICTURESQUE USE OF ABSTRACT VOCABULARY -- THE ARCHITECTURE OF DECONSTRUCTION -- THE PLEASURES OF ABSENCE -- THE BATTLE OF HIGH-TECH: -- GREAT BUILDINGS WITH GREAT FAULTS -- POST-MODERN CLASSICISM -- THE SYNTHESIS OF A PUBLIC LANGUAGE -- POST-MODERN REGIONALISM -- THE EXPRESSION OF PLACE -- ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE IN THE WORLD VILLAGE. ISBN 1854901923 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Broschiert. Seller Inventory # 943694
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