Modern movements in architecture

Arts & Photography

JENCKS, Charles

History & Criticism

Penguin

Modern Movements In Architecture

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Uk

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.

Modern Movements in Architecture: Second Edition

Architecture

Penguin??Books

288 pages. In this book, the editors, Charles Jencks and George Baird, have created a unique open forum where the diverse opinions of a number of internationally known architects and critics are presented and challenged. Fully illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams.

Meaning in architecture;

G. Braziller

The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture to revolution.
When this book first appeared in 1972, it was part of the spirit that would define a new architecture and design era―a new way of thinking ready to move beyond the purist doctrines and formal models of modernism. Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver's book was a manifesto for a generation that took pleasure in doing things ad hoc, using materials at hand to solve real-world problems. The implications were subversive. Turned-off citizens of the 1970s immediately adopted the book as a DIY guide. The word “adhocism” entered the vocabulary, the concept of adhocism became part of the designer's toolkit, and Adhocism became a cult classic. Now Adhocism is available again, with new texts by Jencks and Silver reflecting on the past forty years of adhocism and new illustrations demonstrating adhocism's continuing relevance.
Adhocism has always been around. (Think Robinson Crusoe, making a raft and then a shelter from the wreck of his ship.) As a design principle, adhocism starts with everyday improvisations: a bottle as a candleholder, a dictionary as a doorstop, a tractor seat on wheels as a dining room chair. But it is also an undeveloped force within the way we approach almost every activity, from play to architecture to city planning to political revolution.
Engagingly written, filled with pictures and examples from areas as diverse as auto mechanics and biology, Adhocism urges us to pay less attention to the rulebook and more to the real principle of how we actually do things. It declares that problems are not necessarily solved in a genius's “eureka!” moment but by trial and error, adjustment and readjustment.

Adhocism, expanded and updated edition: The Case for Improvisation (Mit Press)

Silver, Nathan

The MIT Press

This classic of prediction, written in 1969, has now been brought up to date, the prophecies judges, and the omens extended to 2030.The success rate of Jencks' forecasts and his method of combining expert prediction with structural analysis make this book an important contribution to the art of conjecture. Not only did he predict the a series of innovations that have changed the world, such as the Internet, but he identified six main architectural traditions that continuously transform over time. This provides a method of gauging what are likely to be the future movements in architecture, a useful and fascinating tool for speculation. No other book of forecasting is like it, a hypertext of retrospection, judgement and further prophecy.

Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods (New Concepts of Architecture)

Praeger

Architecture 2000;: Predictions and methods

Praeger Publishers

The New Paradigm in Architecture tellsthe story of a movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty years. The book begins by surveying the counter culture of the 1960s, when Jane Jacobs and Robert Venturi called for a more complex urbanism and architecture. It concludes by showing how such demands began to be realized by the 1990s in a new architecture that is aided by computer design—more convivial, sensuous, and articulate than the Modern architecture it challenges. Promoted by such architects as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, and Peter Eisenman, it has also been adopted by many schools and offices around the world. Charles Jencks traces the history of computer design which is, at its heart, built on the desire for an architecture that communicates with its users, one based on the heterogeneity of cities and global culture. This book, the first to explore the broad issue of Postmodernism, has fostered its growth in other fields such as philosophy and the arts. First written at the start of an architectural movement in the mid-1970s, it has been translated into eleven languages and has gone through six editions. Now completely rewritten and with two new chapters, this edition brings the history up to date with the latest twists in the narrative and the turn to a new complexity in architecture.

The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Postmodernism

Yale University Press

The New Paradigm in Architecture tells the story of a movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty years. Starting with the counter culture of the 1960s and the call for a complex urbanism by Jane Jacobs and a complex architecture by Robert Venturi, it shows how such demands started to be realised by the 1990s, aided by computer design. Often curved, warped and fractal in shape, it is more convivial, sensuous and articulate than the modern architecture it challenges. Carried forward by architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Eisenman, it has also become a leading approach in many schools and offices around the world. The computer is now at its heart but its history, which Charles Jencks traces, is built on the desire for an architecture that communicates with its users, and one based on the heterogeneity of our cities and global culture.

<div> <div>Charles Jencks is a designer and the author of numerous books on the theory and history of architecture. He was formerly visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.</div> </div>

The New Paradigm in Architecture

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Modern movements in architecture

Modern Movements In Architecture

Modern Movements in Architecture: Second Edition

Meaning in architecture;

Adhocism, expanded and updated edition: The Case for Improvisation (Mit Press)

Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods (New Concepts of Architecture)

Architecture 2000;: Predictions and methods

The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Postmodernism

The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Postmodernism

The New Paradigm in Architecture