Post Modern Classicism (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Pictorial softcover. First edition. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Color photos as well as multiple architectural elevations and diagrams throughout. 4to. 143 pp.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Architectural Design, 1980. First edition. Folio. Trade paperback, 144 pp. Heavily illustrated in color. Light shelf wear. Very good. Illustrated (illustrator).

PAPER, OVER 200 ILLS. VG-Fine.

144pgs. 27x22. Muy ilustrado , fotos color y blanco negro. Rústica.

143 pp., in 4°, testo in inglese, ottimo.

10pp (main issue) plus 144pp (Profile), many bw and some colour illustrations. 28x22, illustrated wraps. Juvenile drawing on front wrap (rather good), bit of wear, otherwise good. Major contribution by Jencks and others to the impassioned debates about architecture of the period, very well illustrated with works by Stern, Hollein, Stirling, Isozaki, Rossi, Botta et al.…

Wraps. Condition: As is, binding copy. Fiftieth Anniversary Issue. The format is approximately 9 inches by 10.75 . 143, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Cover worn, torn and repaired with tape. Rear cover separated by present. Ink notation on Contents page. Charles Alexander Jencks (June 21, 1939 October 13, 2019) was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as a theorist of postmodernism.[2] Jencks devoted time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland. These landscapes include the Garden of Cosmic Speculation and earthworks at Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh. His continuing project Crawick Multiverse, commissioned by the Duke of Buccleuch, opened in 2015 near Sanquhar. Jencks became a leading figure in British landscape architecture. His landscape work was inspired by black holes, fractals, genetics, chaos theory, waves and solitons. In Edinburgh, Scotland, he designed the landform at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in collaboration with Terry Farrell and Duncan Whatmore of Terry Farrell and Partners. Jencks discussed his theories of postmodern architecture in The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. He examined the paradigm shift from modern to postmodern architecture, claiming that modern architecture concentrates on univalent forms such as right angles and square buildings often resembling office buildings. However, postmodern architecture focuses on forms derived from the mind, body, city context, and nature. In 2007, he published 'Critical Modernism'. This issue is one of a series desgned to examine the views held by major critics and architects on developments in current architecture. Jencks appeared on television programs in the U.S. and UK, and he wrote two feature films for the BBC (on Le Corbusier, and on Frank Lloyd Wright and Michael Graves). Postmodern architecture emerged in the late 1960s as a reaction against the perceived shortcomings of modern architecture, particularly its rigid doctrines, its uniformity, its lack of ornament, and its habit of ignoring the history and culture of the cities where it appeared. In 1966, Venturi formalized the movement in his book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. The movement was formally introduced by the architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown and architectural theorist Robert Venturi in their 1972 book Learning from Las Vegas. The style flourished from the 1980s through the 1990s, particularly in the work of Scott Brown & Venturi, Philip Johnson, Charles Moore and Michael Graves. In the late 1990s, it divided into a multitude of new tendencies, including high-tech architecture, neo-futurism, new classical architecture, and deconstructivism. However, some buildings built after this period are still considered postmodern. In place of the functional doctrines of modernism, Venturi proposed giving primary emphasis to the façade, incorporating historical elements, a subtle use of unusual materials and historical allusions, and the use of fragmentation and modulations to make the building interesting. Accomplished architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown, who was Venturi's wife, and Venturi wrote Learning from Las Vegas (1972), co-authored with Steven Izenour, in which they further developed their joint argument against modernism. They urged architects to take into consideration and to celebrate the existing architecture in a place, rather than to try to impose a visionary utopia from their own fantasies. This was in line with Scott Brown's belief that buildings should be built for people, and that architecture should listen to them. Scott Brown and Venturi argued that ornamental an.…

Condition: Very Good. Folio hardcover 360pp index, colour illus. very good / very good, creased & slightly faded d/w. From Library Journal: One of the most remarkable turnabouts in the art communities has been the resurgence of interest in classicism and academicism in every form from avante-garde painting to the design of houses and office buildings. This book puts all of this on the map in the considered style that has made Jencks one of the most sought-after commentators on the contemporary art scene. Whether or not one views this vein of art critically as a specious effluent of Neoconservatism or enthusiastically as Jencks does, as a vital reinterpretation of the Western artistic patrimony, this tome offers an understandable, worldwide survey. It contains over 300 sharp color illustrations.…

Condition: Good. 4to. 143pp. Very good. Softcover. Color and black and white plates throughout.

4° kartoniert. 143 Seiten mit zahlreichen Illustrationen und Grundrissen. Kleine Knickspur an oberer Ecke des Hinterdeckels.Einband etwas angestaubt und Rücken gebräunt,sonst gut. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

Farbig illustriert original-kartoniert; 4°; 143 (1) Seiten. Gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch 630 gr.

Softcover. Condition: good. First edition. Magazine. N°5-6, 1980.