This first standard work on the past 25 years in postmodern architecture documents a rich and controversial period. It provides a fascinating, clear, and provocative definition of the phenomena of postmodernism, particularly in relation to the major ideas of modernism. Over 500 illustrations, including 96 in full color, are in themselves a substantial record of the aesthetic preoccupations of postmodernist architects, their patrons, and their detractors. Heinrich Klotz is one of Europe's leading architectural critics. In this panoramic work he challenges popular notions of postmodernism as synonymous with the stylistic license of eclecticism. He seeks to clarify the postmodern in other than stylistic, historic, or regional terms and identifies a long tradition of canonical, "modern" buildings which were breaking ground for what would become "postmodern" long before the word existed. His criteria for what defines postmodern will be challenged, debated, and quoted by historians and architects alike. Klotz focuses both on architects' individual projects and their work as a whole, combining structural analysis with an assessment of programmatic and philosophical content. "Not only function, but also fiction!": that is the guiding concept of this book. His approach leads quite naturally to a gallery of celebrities from the modern as well as the postmodern period: Mies, Kahn, Venturi, Moore, Ungers, Rossi, Stirling, Hollein, Gehry, Graves, Meier, Hedjuk, Eisenman, Botta, Krier, and Stern among them. Also included are a host of less well-known contemporary practitioners including Rem Koolhas, Thomas Gordon Smith, and Maurice Culot. Heinrich Klotz is Professor at the University of Marburg and Director of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, the most distinguished showcase of contemporary architectural exhibitions in Europe. He is the author of 14 books, founder and editor of Architectura magazine, the Jahrbuch fuer architecktur, and winner of the Schinkel prize of the German Society of Architects.

The History of Postmodern Architecture (English and German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Klotz, Heinrich

Architecture

Mit Pr

This first standard work on the postmodern architecture of the past twenty-five years documents a rich and controversial period.

History of Postmodern Architecture

MIT Press]

Mankind has become increasingly preoccupied with technology - how we can use it, and how it can use us. Historically artists have often been among the first to confront these issues, commandeering new technologies designed for scientific or commercial purposes and refashioning them to their own ends. Some artists have treated emerging technologies simply as convenient tools for creative expression, analogous to a painter's brush or a sculptor's chisel. Others have chosen to investigate the properties of the medium itself or its impact on society.

Mediascape

Reference

Frohne, Ursula

Catalogs & Directories

Guggenheim Museum Pubns

New Museum Buildings in the Federal Republic of Germany/Neue Museumsbauten in Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Rizzoli

Essays provide historical and commentary on aspects of New York architecture, and projects completed or uncompleted give a view of architectural trends

New York Architecture 1970-90

Looks at the early work of the Florentine recognized as the first Renaissance architect, and describes the influence of both classical and Gothic architecture on his work

Filippo Brunelleschi

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Paper Architecture

Questions aux architectes

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

MARDAGA PIERRE

Hans Hollein - Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (German Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hollein, Hans

Ammann, Jean Ch.

Social Sciences

Ernst & Sohn

Moderne und Postmoderne: Architektur der Gegenwart 1960-1980 (Schriften des Deutschen Architekturmuseums zur Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie)

Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn

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