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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 416 pages. "This anthology presents the synthesising trend in all its diversity and includes key historical texts by Daniel Bell and Jena-Francois Lyotard as well as seminal papers by Andreas Huyssen, James Collins, Umberto Eco, John Barth, Linda Hutcheon, David Lodge, among others. This book includes: New Culture Theory, Late Modernism as Post-Modernism, Literature, Art, Architecture, Film, Sociology, Politics, Geography, Feminism, Science and Religion.".…

Softcover. 4°, Original 80-page brochure, richly illustrated in color and monochrome. Cover slightly rubbed, overall in good condition. -- Originalbroschur mit 80 Seiten, reich farbig und einfarbig bebildert. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt gutes Exemplar. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Wenn es draußen stürmt, können Sie es sich mit einem guten Buch gemütlich machen und ein warmes Getränk dazu genießen. Bei uns finden Sie die passende Lektüre! -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K09730-436425.…

416pp. Text illus. Sm. 4to. Wraps.

416pp. Text illus. Sm. 4to. Wraps.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: slightly edge-worn and a little darkened, even so still showing well. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks, save a previous owner's inscription at the endpaper. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.…

viii, 92pp many colour illustrations. 28x22, wraps. Very good. Special issue on the recently concluded competition to design new Government buildings in Arizona, and a resulting exhibition held at UCLA. Articles by Jencks and others on the architecture of government from the Romans onwards.

90pp, many colour illustrations, fold-out map. 28x22, illustrated wraps. Very good. An 'essential guide to 100 buildings' marking the spread of post-modernist architecture in the UK's capital.

viii, 92pp many colour illustrations. 28x22, wraps. Very good. Special issue on the recently concluded competition to design new Government buildings in Arizona, and a resulting exhibition held at UCLA. Articles by Jencks and others on the architecture of government from the Romans onwards.

90pp, many colour illustrations, fold-out map. 28x22, illustrated wraps. Very good, owner's name drawn artistically on ffep. An 'essential guide to 100 buildings' marking the spread of post-modernist architecture in the UK's capital.

Wraps. Zustand: As is, binding copy. Fiftieth Anniversary Issue. The format is approximately 9 inches by 10.75 . 143, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Cover worn, torn and repaired with tape. Rear cover separated by present. Ink notation on Contents page. Charles Alexander Jencks (June 21, 1939 October 13, 2019) was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as a theorist of postmodernism.[2] Jencks devoted time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland. These landscapes include the Garden of Cosmic Speculation and earthworks at Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh. His continuing project Crawick Multiverse, commissioned by the Duke of Buccleuch, opened in 2015 near Sanquhar. Jencks became a leading figure in British landscape architecture. His landscape work was inspired by black holes, fractals, genetics, chaos theory, waves and solitons. In Edinburgh, Scotland, he designed the landform at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in collaboration with Terry Farrell and Duncan Whatmore of Terry Farrell and Partners. Jencks discussed his theories of postmodern architecture in The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. He examined the paradigm shift from modern to postmodern architecture, claiming that modern architecture concentrates on univalent forms such as right angles and square buildings often resembling office buildings. However, postmodern architecture focuses on forms derived from the mind, body, city context, and nature. In 2007, he published 'Critical Modernism'. This issue is one of a series desgned to examine the views held by major critics and architects on developments in current architecture. Jencks appeared on television programs in the U.S. and UK, and he wrote two feature films for the BBC (on Le Corbusier, and on Frank Lloyd Wright and Michael Graves). Postmodern architecture emerged in the late 1960s as a reaction against the perceived shortcomings of modern architecture, particularly its rigid doctrines, its uniformity, its lack of ornament, and its habit of ignoring the history and culture of the cities where it appeared. In 1966, Venturi formalized the movement in his book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. The movement was formally introduced by the architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown and architectural theorist Robert Venturi in their 1972 book Learning from Las Vegas. The style flourished from the 1980s through the 1990s, particularly in the work of Scott Brown & Venturi, Philip Johnson, Charles Moore and Michael Graves. In the late 1990s, it divided into a multitude of new tendencies, including high-tech architecture, neo-futurism, new classical architecture, and deconstructivism. However, some buildings built after this period are still considered postmodern. In place of the functional doctrines of modernism, Venturi proposed giving primary emphasis to the façade, incorporating historical elements, a subtle use of unusual materials and historical allusions, and the use of fragmentation and modulations to make the building interesting. Accomplished architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown, who was Venturi's wife, and Venturi wrote Learning from Las Vegas (1972), co-authored with Steven Izenour, in which they further developed their joint argument against modernism. They urged architects to take into consideration and to celebrate the existing architecture in a place, rather than to try to impose a visionary utopia from their own fantasies. This was in line with Scott Brown's belief that buildings should be built for people, and that architecture should listen to them. Scott Brown and Venturi argued that ornamental an. …