Architecture in Europe Since 1968: Memory and Invention

Tzonis, Alexander,Lefaivre, Liane

ISBN 10: 0500279489 / ISBN 13: 9780500279489

Published by Thames & Hudson, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Architecture in Europe Since 1968: Memory and Invention
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500279489
• ISBN 13: 9780500279489
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Winner of an American Institute of Architects Award, this book surveys twenty years of a period characterized by conflict between tradition and invention, modern and anti-modern, and by an abundance of disparate design solutions. The epoch begins with the completion in 1972 of the first commissions embodying the ideas that sprang out of the events of 1968--a year when student unrest and political upheaval crystallized new intellectual and cultural attitudes. It ends in the early 1990s, a time when both Modernism and earlier traditions began to be reappraised. Over seventy-five projects are presented, with critical essays, photographs, drawings, site diagrams, and construction details. Extensive documentation includes background data on each project, bibliographies, and biographies, with contributions from Jean-Louis Cohen, Lucius Burckhardt, Fritz Neumeyer, and Peter Rice.

Review

The sharpest overview yet of the jumbled terrain of the last quarter century in Europe. -- New York Times