30.0 x 21.5cms 168pp with b/w & Colour Illustrations very good hardcover & dustwrapper This classic work has chapters on 'the death of modern architecture' 'the modes of architectural communication' 'post-modern architecture' and 'the synthesis: post-modern classicism'.

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Title: The Language Of Post-Modern Architecture (4th edition)
Publisher: Rizzoli New York 1984
Publication Date: 1984
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0847805719
ISBN 13: 9780847805716
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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"The New Paradigm in Architecture tells the story of a movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty years. Starting with the counter culture of the 1960s and the call for a complex urbanism by Jane Jacobs and a complex architecture by Robert Venturi, it shows how such demands started to be realised by the 1990s, aided by computer design. Often curved, warped and fractal in shape, it is more convivial, sensuous and articulate than the modern architecture it challenges. Carried forward by architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Eisenman, it has also become a leading approach in many schools and offices around the world. The computer is now at its heart but its history, which Charles Jencks traces, is built on the desire for an architecture that communicates with its users, and one based on the heterogeneity of our cities and global culture." "The New Paradigm in Architecture shows the key projects defining Post-Modernism and concentrates on the major protagonists, Robert Venturi, James Stirling, Mans Hollein, Aldo Rossi, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry." The book is comprehensively illustrated with over 390 photographs, plans, diagrams and evolutionary trees describing the major trends.

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