The Story of Post-modernism - Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

Zusatztext 'The Power of the book lies not so much in the sharpness of the author's criticism of the present as in the generosity and perceptiveness of his anticipation of the future'. Arichitectural Review! Nov 2011.'Charles Jencks's summary of the post-modern architectural movement promises clarity and straightforwardness. There is a little of each but not too much'. Country Living! Nov 2011 Informationen zum Autor Charles Jencks is an American architectural theorist, author and landscape architect. He has written widely on Post-Modern and Modern architecture. His bestselling book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) popularised Post-Modernism in architecture and made him the leading author on the subject in the 1970s and 1980s. With his late wife Maggie Keswick he is the founder of the Maggie Centres, a charity that has become influential for its enlightened provision of uplifting environments for cancer care, designed by some of the world's most renowned architects. Jencks writes and lectures internationally on architecture and landscape design. Klappentext In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes.* The book is highly visual. As well as providing a chronological account of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature on the major works of a given period.* The first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture - other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago.* An accessible narrative that will appeal to students who are new to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday in the 70s and 80s. Zusammenfassung In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis 8 Preface Post-Modernism Resurgent? The Back Story Some Debts Acknowledged And Especially Madelon 16 Part I The Perfect Storm of Post-Modernism The Moral Failures of Modernism The Recurrent Deaths of Modernism The Triumph of Nothingness Revisionists and Le Corbusier Lead the Revolt Complexity and Double-Coding - the First Post-Modern Synthesis The Shape of History - Big, Medium and Small Waves 50 Part II Searching for Difference, Finding Commonality Global Pluralism Radical Eclecticism, the First Response to Homogeneity Contextual Counterpoint Post-Modern Classicism - the Ironic International Style Media Events and Money A Diversion on Cost and Taste James Stirling Synthesises Contextualism and Pluralism The Complexity Paradigm Extended Modernists Becoming Post-Modern Time-Binding Opposites 114 Part III Towards a Critical Modernism What is a City? A Complex Adaptive System Heterotopias and the Heteropolis Expressively Green and Inexpensive Rem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito and the Porous Route Building Peter Eisenman, the Landform and the Critical-Creative 160 Part IV Complexity and Nature's Ornament The Complexity Paradigm Fractal Architecture and the Metaphysics of Seamless Continuity Opening Up the White Cube Four Degrees of Ornament 200 Part V The Coming of the Cosmic Icons The Iconic Building and its Discontents The Bilbao Effect Multiple Meaning and Enigmatic Signifiers Worthy...

List of contents

PREFACE Post-Modernism Resurgent?
 
The Back Story
 
Some Debts Acknowledged
 
And Especially Madelon
 
PART I The Perfect Storm of Post-Modernism
 
The Moral Failures of Modernism
 
The Recurrent Deaths of Modernism
 
The Triumph of Nothingness
 
Revisionists and Le Corbusier Lead the Revolt
 
Complexity and Double-Coding - the First Post-Modern Synthesis
 
The Shape of History - Big, Medium and Small Waves
 
PART II Searching for Difference, Finding Commonality
 
Global Pluralism
 
Radical Eclecticism, the First Response to Homogeneity
 
Contextual Counterpoint
 
Post-Modern Classicism - the Ironic International Style
 
Media Events and Money
 
A Diversion on Cost and Taste
 
James Stirling Synthesises Contextualism and Pluralism
 
The Complexity Paradigm Extended
 
Modernists Becoming Post-Modern
 
Time-Binding Opposites
 

PART III Towards a Critical Modernism
 
What is a City? - a Complex Adaptive System
 
Heterotopias and the Heteropolis
 
Expressively Green and Inexpensive
 
Rem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito and the Porous Route Building
 
Peter Eisenman, the Landform and the Critical-Creative
 
PART IV Complexity and Nature's Ornament
 
The Complexity Paradigm
 
Fractal Architecture and the Metaphysics of Seamless Continuity
 
Opening up the White Cube
 
Four Degrees of Ornament
 
PART V The Coming of the Cosmic Icons
 
The Iconic Building and its Discontents
 
The Bilbao Effect
 
Multiple Meaning and Enigmatic Signifiers
 
Worthy Icons?
 
Paranoia, Veiled Themes and Cosmic Iconology
 
Premature Conclusion: the Iconology of Post-Modernism?
 
Notes
 

 
A Post-Modern Bibliography

Report

'The Power of the book lies not so much in the sharpness of the author's criticism of the present as in the generosity and perceptiveness of his anticipation of the future'. Arichitectural Review, Nov 2011.
 
'Charles Jencks's summary of the post-modern architectural movement promises clarity and straightforwardness. There is a little of each but not too much'. Country Living, Nov 2011

Product details

• Authors: Charles Jencks
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2011
• EAN: 9780470688953
• ISBN: 978-0-470-68895-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 194 mm x 247 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architektur : Geschichte, Architektur, Bauwerk, Architecture, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Postmodernism, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999