The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Postmodernism

Charles Jencks

ISBN 10: 0300095139 / ISBN 13: 9780300095135

Published by Yale University Press August 2002, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Postmodernism
• Publisher: Yale University Press August 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300095139
• ISBN 13: 9780300095135
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Charles Jencks is a designer and the author of numerous books on the theory and history of architecture. He was formerly visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.