- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. (July 22 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471976873
- ISBN-13: 978-0471976875
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.8 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 399 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,418,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...a fascinating overview of how the outlook of architects has changed over the past half century." (Prospect Magazine, April 2006)
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This book presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers and gurus. These show that the Modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological Post-Modernism; a High-Tech and sculptural Late Modernism, and deconstructive, subversive New Modernism. Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-Modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books. Highly informative and richly illustrated with over forty drawings and photographs.
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Villa Garches, recently reoccupied, and the houses for Mr Jaoul and his son, now nearing completion, are possibly the most significant buildings by Le Corbusier to be seen in Paris to-day, for they represent the extremes of his vocabulary: the former, rational, urbane, programmatic, the latter personal and anti-mechanistic. Read the first page
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Villa Garches, recently reoccupied, and the houses for Mr Jaoul and his son, now nearing completion, are possibly the most significant buildings by Le Corbusier to be seen in Paris to-day, for they represent the extremes of his vocabulary: the former, rational, urbane, programmatic, the latter personal and anti-mechanistic. Read the first page
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important writings at a glance,
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This review is from: Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (Paperback)
This little green book is like an encylopedia of contemporary famous architects' writings and is a good source for students or layman with not much architectural theory background.
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This collection of texts by Mr. Jencks and Mr. Kropf is a post-modern peace of work: joining different ideas as they were equivalent. At the same time it looks like a way to inform about the theories and manifestoes, in fact, it is a redutive and destructive thing because the peaces of writing dont show the real ideas of the architects. The book gives the same importance to entire complex books, short comments about buildings, magazine inteviews, etc. They are not equivalent, people should be more respectfull with the work of the other ones, mainly when their work is to teach and to help understanding.
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Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture,
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This review is from: Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (Paperback)
good collection of essays and ideas about the meaning of Architecture through different authors along the 20th century. It's not a dictionary nor gives the whole understanding of the overlaping of styles, but shows condensed points of view about various topics.
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important writings at a glance,
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This review is from: Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (Paperback)
This little green book is like an encylopedia of contemporary famous architects' writings and is a good source for students or layman with not much architectural theory background.
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A complete and utter waste; the excerpts in this volume are so short - averaging a page and a half each - that they are completely useless. Please do not waste your money like I did. You can learn more about the authors and theories on Comedy Central than you can by reading the thirty second sound-bites in this waste of paper and ink
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