Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture

Charles Jencks, Karl Kropf - Collection Wiley-Academy

378 pages, parution le 16/12/2005 (2^eme édition)

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Charles Jencks was the first to demonstrate that Modern architecture in the 1960s and 1970s had undergone a profound mutation into three major approaches - Post-Modernism, Late Modernism and New Modernism. He has shown how our pluralist age has oscillated between these and traditional approaches .

In this classic title, the thinking and ideas that have informed, and continue to inform the architecture and urban design around us today, was presented as a compilation of writings by the most important architects, urbanists and theorists of the second half of the 20th century. The new edition brings thinking up to date with additional material that suggests the direction theory is taking into the 21st century.

L'auteur - Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks was born in Baltimore in 1939 and studied under the modern architectural historians Siegfried Geidon and Reyner Banham at Harvard and the Architectural Association in London. Known for his books questioning modern architecture and defining successive movements, he now divides his time between lecturing, writing and garden-design products in the UK, Europe and USA. His own innovative work includes dramatic and award-winning landscaping project, landform, for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He is a trustee of the Maggie's Centres, the charity he co-founded with Maggie Keswick in 1995, which has quickly established itself as an important architectural patron, commissioning architects to design innovative recuperative centres for cancer care.

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L'auteur - Karl Kropf

Karl Kropf is an urbanist engaged in both theoretical research and practice, focusing on the morphogenesis and dynamics of urban form. With a background in the sciences, history and design, he is head of spatial planning and research at Roger Evans Associates and a member of the Urban Morphology Research Group. He has worked for a number of firms, including Skidmore Owings and Merrill in San Francisco, and as a consultant in France and the UK.

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Introduction
Post-Modern
Post Modern Ecology
Traditional
Late Modern
New Modern
Complexity Paradigm
Editor's Note

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Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Charles Jencks, Karl Kropf
Collection	Wiley-Academy
Parution	16/12/2005
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	378
Format	15 x 22,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	545g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780470014691
ISBN13	978-0-470-01469-1