The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
- The book is highly visual. As well as providing a chronological account of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature on the 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 are new to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday in the 70s and 80s.
Britain: Modern Architectures in History (Modern Architectures in History)
The story of modernism in architecture is international, yet each country adopted the movement in its own unique way, inspired by individual artists a...
Modernism in Design
This book reasserts the meaning of Modernism as a historical phenomenon. The essays consider design in its widest sense and look at Modernism's fortun...
The Architecture of the Jumping Universe
Charles Jencks has the uncanny capacity to announce a new movement in architecture before it has begun. With Post-Modernism, he was looking to the pas...
City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, de...
An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present
A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Archi...