The Story of Post-Modernism
Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
2nd Edition
Published on 25. May 2012
296 pages
978-1-119-96009-6 (ISBN)
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In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, theauthority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides thedefining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliestroots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking thenarrative into seven distinct chapters, which are bothchronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow ofthe movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes.
* The book is highly visual. As well as providing a chronologicalaccount of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature onthe major works of a given period.
* The first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture -other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago.
* An accessible narrative that will appeal to students who arenew to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday inthe 70s and 80s.
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Charles Jencks is an American architectural theorist, author and landscape architect. He has written widely on Post-Modern and Modern architecture. His bestselling book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) popularised Post-Modernism in architecture and made him the leading author on the subject in the 70s and 80s. He is the founder of the Maggie Centres with his late wife Maggie Keswick, a charity that has become influential for its enlightened provision of uplifting environments for cancer care, designed by some of the world's most renowned architects. Jencks writes and lectures internationally on architecture and landscape design.
Content
PREFACE Post-Modernism Resurgent?
The Back Story
Some Debts Acknowledged
And Especially Madelon
PART I The Perfect Storm of Post-Modernism
The Moral Failures of Modernism
The Recurrent Deaths of Modernism
The Triumph of Nothingness
Revisionists and Le Corbusier Lead the Revolt
Complexity and Double-Coding - the First Post-ModernSynthesis
The Shape of History - Big, Medium and Small Waves
PART II Searching for Difference, Finding Commonality
Global Pluralism
Radical Eclecticism, the First Response to Homogeneity
Contextual Counterpoint
Post-Modern Classicism - the Ironic InternationalStyle
Media Events and Money
A Diversion on Cost and Taste
James Stirling Synthesises Contextualism and Pluralism
The Complexity Paradigm Extended
Modernists Becoming Post-Modern
Time-Binding Opposites
PART III Towards a Critical Modernism
What is a City? - a Complex Adaptive System
Heterotopias and the Heteropolis
Expressively Green and Inexpensive
Rem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito and the Porous RouteBuilding
Peter Eisenman, the Landform and the Critical-Creative
PART IV Complexity and Nature's Ornament
The Complexity Paradigm
Fractal Architecture and the Metaphysics of SeamlessContinuity
Opening up the White Cube
Four Degrees of Ornament
PART V The Coming of the Cosmic Icons
The Iconic Building and its Discontents
The Bilbao Effect
Multiple Meaning and Enigmatic Signifiers
Worthy Icons?
Paranoia, Veiled Themes and Cosmic Iconology
Premature Conclusion: the Iconology of Post-Modernism?
Notes
A Post-Modern Bibliography
