Late-modern architecture and other essays / Charles A. Jencks.

Main entry:

Jencks, Charles.

Title & Author:

Late-modern architecture and other essays / Charles A. Jencks.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1980.

Description:

200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index.
1. Late-modern theory. Introduction : end of an era? ; Late modernism and post-modernism ; The rhetoric of late-modernism : a pictorial essay -- 2. Late-modern practice. James Stirling's corporate culture machine ; Stirling's St. Andrew's dormitories ; The supersensualists I & II ; The pluralism of Japanese architecture ; Irrational rationalism : the rats since 1960 -- 3. Serious jokes. Philip Johnson : the candid King Midas of New York camp ; Bruce Goff : the Michelangelo of kitsch -- 4. History and theory. The Tory interpretation of history ; Architecture and morality.

Summary:

This book analyses the defining aspects of late-modern architecture.

ISBN:

0847802930
9780847802937
0847802841 (pbk.)
9780847802845 (pbk.)
0856706493
9780856706493

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 17004
Call No.: 2927; ID:87-B5176
Status: Available

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