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Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern ar...
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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 poss...
A classic account which, when written in 1977, was the first to define post-modernism in architecture, an event which led to subsequent adoption of th...
The Language of Post-modernism
This book explores the broad issue of Postmodernism and tells the story of the movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty ...
Predictions and Methods
The Thematic House
"A new type of achitecture has emerged in the last decade : the iconic landmark building, which challenges the traditional architectural monument. In ...
A Polemic : how Complexity Science is Changing Architecture and Culture
Charles Jencks has the uncanny capacity to announce a new movement in architecture before it has begun. With Post-Modernism, he was looking to the pas...
Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOPE focuses on an exciting building project that has been underway since the mid-1990s - new cancer caring centres that offer a f...
Soon after leaving La Chaux-de-Fonds for Paris, Jeanneret, in association with the Purist painter Amedee Ozenfant, gained fame in the 1920s under the ...
The New Classicism in Art and Architecture
Describes the return to a new classical style within art and architecture. Includes 350 illustrations of paintings, sculpture, and architecture....
Maggies Centres
Los Angeles, the Riots and the Strange Beauty of Hetero-architecture
In an age dominated by nationalism and ethnic conflict, Charles Jencks argues that these reactionary tendencies can be countered by an equally powerfu...
Where is Post-Modernism Going? What is Post-Modernism?
After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cu...
This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late...
Consideration of the concept as it relates to the arts and literature....
From Late to Neo-modernism
The Case for Improvisation
The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture to revolution. When...
Success in the Art of Prediction
This classic of prediction, written in 1969, has now been brought up to date, the prophecies judges, and the omens extended to 2030.The success rate o...
Frank Lloyd Wright & Michael Graves
"In the BBC film, Kings of Infinite Space, Charles Jencks debated with Michael Graves and Philip Johnson the merits of Pre-Modern and Post-Modern arch...
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret set about the task of reinventing everything he had touched, from himself to architecture. Famously, he began with his own n...
Foster in View
Included in this volume are nearly all of Foster's most celebrated projects. Johnson's images allow readers to explore the ineffable qualties of Foste...
The Surprising Link
Today there is a broad trend towards an architecture that could be called ecstatic - partly motivated by pure architectural ideas pushed to their limi...
This issue addresses how architectural thinking and practices change in light of emergent technologies, and the belief that architecture changes only ...
From a Debate of the Academy International Forum at the Royal Academy
Landforms by Charles Jencks
Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal land...
Frank Lloyd Wright & Michael Graves; Based on the BBC Film by Charles Jencks