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Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture

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ISBN-10: 0471976873

ISBN-13: 9780471976875

Edition: 1997

Authors: Charles Jencks, Karl Kropf

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/5/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Architectural critic and historian Charles Jencks is the author of, among many other titles, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture (Doubleday 50M copies sold to date)., The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, and The Architecture of the Jumping Universe.

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,…    

Post-Modern
1955 James Stirling From Garches to Jaoul: Le Corbusier as Domestic Architect in 1927 and 1953
1956 James Stirling Ronchamp: Le Corbusier''s Chapel and the Crisis of Rationalsim
1960 Kevin Lynch The Image of the City
1961 N John Harbraken Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing
1961 Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1962 Aldo Van Eyck Team 10 Primer
1965 Christopher Alexander A City is not a Tree
1965 Christian Norberg-Schulz Intentions in Architecture
1966 Aldo Rossi The Architecture of the City
1966 Robert Venturi Complexity and Contradiction in Architecutre
1969 Charles Jencks Semiology and Architecutre
1970 Giancarlo De Carlo Architecture''s Public
1972 Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver Adhocism
1972 Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour Learning from Las Vegas
1975 Charles Jencks The Rise of Post Modern Architecture
1975 Rob Krier Urban Space
1975 Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter Collage City
1975 Joseph Rykwert Ornament is no Crime
1976 Aldo Rossi An Analogical Architecture
1977 Kisho Kurokawa Metabolism in Architecture
1977 Kent C Bloomer and Charles W Moore Body, Memory and Architecture
1978 Leon Krier Rational Architecure: The Reconstruction of the City
1978 Anthony Vidler The Third Typology
1979 Christopher Alexander The Timeless Way of Building
1980 Dolores Hayden What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like?Speculations on Housing, Urban Design and Human Work
1980 Charles Jencks Towards a Radical Eclecticism
1980 Paolo Portoghesi The End of Prohibitionism
1980 Site Notes on the Philosophy of SITE
1982 Michael Graves A Case for Figurative Architecture
1982 Oswald Mathias Ungers Architecture as Theme
1983 Kenneth Frampton Towards a Critical Regionlism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance
1983 Lucien Kroll The Architecture of Resistance
1984 Memphis The Memphis Idea
1987 Kisho Kurokawa The Philosophy of Symbiosis
1989 Steven Holl Anchoring
1991 Frank O Gehry On his Own House
1991 Itsuko Hasegawa Architecture as Another Nature
1991 Eric Owen Moss Which Truth do You Want to Tell
1993 Frank O Gehry On the American Center, Paris: An Interview
1993 Jeffrey Kipnis Towards a New Architecutre: Folding
1993 Greg Lynn Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple
1996 Arata Isozaki The Island Nation Aesthetic
1996 Charles Jencks 13 Propositions of Post-Modern Architecture
POST-Modern Ecology
1969 Ian McHarg Deisgn with Nature
1979 Sim van der Ryn and Steriling Bunnell Integral Design
1984 Anne Whiston Spirn The Granite Grarden
1984 Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd Bioshelters, Ocean Arks and City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design
1986 Hassan Fathy Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture
1987 Kenneth Yeang Tropical Urban Regionalism
1990 Chistopher Day Places of the Soul
1990 James Wines Architect''s Statement
1991 Team Zoo/Atelier Zo Principles of Design
1991 Brenda and Robert Vale Green Architecture
1992 William McDonough The Hannover Principles
1993 Peter Calthorpe The Next American Metropolis
1994 Kenneth Yeang Bioclimiatic Skyscrapers
1996 Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan Ecological Design
Traditional
1969 Hassan Fathy Architecture for the Poor
1976 Robet MaGuire The Value of Tradition
1977 David Watkin Morality and Architecture
1978 The Brussels Declaration Reconstruction of the European City
1980 Maurice Culot Reconstructing the City in Stone
1983 Demetri Porphyrios Classicism is Not a Style
1984 Leon Krier Building and Architecture
1984 Robert Am Stern On Style, Classicism and Pedagogy
1985 HRH The Prince of Wales RIBA Gala Speech
1986 Alexander Tzonis Liane Lefaivre Critical Classicism: The Tragic Function
1987 HRH The Prince of Wales Mansion House Speech
1989 Duany + Plater-Zyberk Traditional Neighbourhood Development Ordinance
1989 Quinlan Terry Architecture and Theology
1989 HRH The Prince of Wales A Vision of Britain
1992 The Urban Villages Group Urban Villages
1994 Allan Greenberg Why Classical Architecture is Modern
1994 Roger Scruton Architect