Radical Post-Modernism
Architectural Design
Published on 23. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-0-470-66988-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this latest issue of Architectural Design the guest editors are drawn, like the content, from contrasting tastes and generations. Charles Jencks, the definer of Post-Modernism for thirty years, discusses some issues that have re-emerged today, while the young group of British architects, FAT, argues for a particular version of RPM. An interview between Rem Koohaas and Charles Jencks discusses the influence of Post-Modernism while investigations of street art, graffiti and the 1980 Venice Biennale show that communication is at the heart of this radical strain of architecture.
* This issue brings together an unlikely and exciting pairing of guest-editors: internationally acclaimed critic Charles Jencks, whose name became synonymous with Post-modernism in the 80s, and the dynamic architectural group, FAT.
* Features work by: ARM, Atelier Bow Wow, Édouard François, FOA, Rem Koolhaas, John and Valerio Olgiati.
More details
Product info
Paperback
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 277 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
566 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-66988-4 (9780470669884)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Charles Jencks is an American architectural theorist, author and landscape architect. He has a BA in English Lit, BA and MA in Architecture and a PhD in Architectural History. He guest lectures on architecture in cultural institutions across the world.
Content
5 Editorial
Helen Castle
6 About the Guest-Editors
Charles Jencks, Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob
8 Spotlight
Visual highlights of the issue
14 Introduction
What is Radical Post-Modernism?
Charles Jencks
Post-Modernism: An Incomplete Project
Fat
24 Beyond the Flatline
Sam Jacob
32 Radical Post-Modernism and Content: Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas debate the issue
Jencks and Koolhaas exchange on Post-Modernism, preservation, the evil aura of the word 'iconic' and the Big Mac sandwich diagram.
46 A Field Guide to Radical Post-Modernism
Fat
62 Contextual Counterpoint
Charles Jencks
68 Virtual Corpses, Figural Sections and Resonant Fields
Sean Griffiths
78 FAT Projects: Manifesting Radical Post-Modernism
Fat
90 Questions of Taste
Charles Holland
98 Historicism versus Communication: The Basic Debate of the 1980 Biennale
Lea-Catherine Szacka The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale brought Post-Modernism to the world's attention, but also highlighted the tensions between historicism and communication.
106 Too Good to Be True: The Survival of English Everyday PoMo
Kester Rattenbury
114 The True Counterfeits of Banksy: Radical Walls of Complicity and Subversion
Eva Branscome
122 Re-Radicalising Post-Modernism
Fat
128 Counterpoint Not So Radical: An American Perspective
Jayne Merkel
Helen Castle
6 About the Guest-Editors
Charles Jencks, Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob
8 Spotlight
Visual highlights of the issue
14 Introduction
What is Radical Post-Modernism?
Charles Jencks
Post-Modernism: An Incomplete Project
Fat
24 Beyond the Flatline
Sam Jacob
32 Radical Post-Modernism and Content: Charles Jencks and Rem Koolhaas debate the issue
Jencks and Koolhaas exchange on Post-Modernism, preservation, the evil aura of the word 'iconic' and the Big Mac sandwich diagram.
46 A Field Guide to Radical Post-Modernism
Fat
62 Contextual Counterpoint
Charles Jencks
68 Virtual Corpses, Figural Sections and Resonant Fields
Sean Griffiths
78 FAT Projects: Manifesting Radical Post-Modernism
Fat
90 Questions of Taste
Charles Holland
98 Historicism versus Communication: The Basic Debate of the 1980 Biennale
Lea-Catherine Szacka The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale brought Post-Modernism to the world's attention, but also highlighted the tensions between historicism and communication.
106 Too Good to Be True: The Survival of English Everyday PoMo
Kester Rattenbury
114 The True Counterfeits of Banksy: Radical Walls of Complicity and Subversion
Eva Branscome
122 Re-Radicalising Post-Modernism
Fat
128 Counterpoint Not So Radical: An American Perspective
Jayne Merkel