Modern Movements in Architecture
Charles Jencks(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 24. June 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-14-023005-5 (ISBN)
Description
This introduction to modern architecture, from 1920 to the present, includes a section on late- and post-modernism. The book describes a critical point in the history of modern architecture.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
b&w photographs and illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
497 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-023005-5 (9780140230055)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The plurality of approaches; the six traditions - politics and architecture; the problem of Mies; Gropius, Wright and the collapse into formalism; Charles Jeanneret - Le Corbusier; Alvar Aalto and the means of architectural communication; recent American architeture - camp non camp; recent British architecture - pop not pop; the international scene - larger than architecture.