{"product_id":"the-story-of-post-modernism-isbn-9780470688953","title":"The Story of Post-Modernism","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Post-Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture - other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Preface Post-Modernism Resurgent?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Back Story\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Debts Acknowledged\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd Especially Madelon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Part I The Perfect Storm of Post-Modernism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Moral Failures of Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Recurrent Deaths of Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Triumph of Nothingness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevisionists and Le Corbusier Lead the Revolt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComplexity and Double-Coding – the First Post-Modern Synthesis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shape of History – Big, Medium and Small Waves\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e50 Part II Searching for Difference, Finding Commonality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Pluralism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRadical Eclecticism, the First Response to Homogeneity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContextual Counterpoint\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-Modern Classicism – the Ironic International Style\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedia Events and Money\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Diversion on Cost and Taste\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Stirling Synthesises Contextualism and Pluralism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Complexity Paradigm Extended\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernists Becoming Post-Modern\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime-Binding Opposites\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e114 Part III Towards a Critical Modernism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is a City? A Complex Adaptive System\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeterotopias and the Heteropolis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpressively Green and Inexpensive\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito and the Porous Route Building\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter Eisenman, the Landform and the Critical-Creative\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e160 Part IV Complexity and Nature’s Ornament\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Complexity Paradigm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFractal Architecture and the Metaphysics of Seamless Continuity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOpening Up the White Cube\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour Degrees of Ornament\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e200 Part V The Coming of the Cosmic Icons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Iconic Building and its Discontents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bilbao Effect\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMultiple Meaning and Enigmatic Signifiers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorthy Icons?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParanoia, Veiled Themes and Cosmic Iconology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePremature Conclusion: the Iconology of Post-Modernism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e248 Notes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e260 A Post-Modern Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e266 Picture Credits\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e268 Index\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The Power of the book lies not so much in the sharpness of the author's criticism of the present as in the generosity and perceptiveness of his anticipation of the future.\" (\u003cem\u003eArchitectural Review,\u003c\/em\u003e Nov 2011) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Charles Jencks's summary of the post-modern architectural movement promises clarity and straightforwardness. There is a little of each but not too much.\" (\u003cem\u003eCountry Living,\u003c\/em\u003e Nov 2011)   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Jencks\u003c\/b\u003e is an American architectural theorist, author and landscape architect. He has written widely on Post-Modern and Modern architecture. His bestselling book \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Post-Modern Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (1977) popularised Post-Modernism in architecture and made him the leading author on the subject in the 1970s and 1980s. With his late wife Maggie Keswick he is the founder of the Maggie Centres, a charity that has become influential for its enlightened provision of uplifting environments for cancer care, designed by some of the world's most renowned architects. Jencks writes and lectures internationally on architecture and landscape design.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Story of POST-MODERNISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Jencks\u003c\/b\u003e \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late 20th century, Post-Modernism was the leading global movement in architecture. It questioned the assumption of a single style and cultural totality and effectively stopped the Modern Movement in its tracks. In 1972, this was symbolised by the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing estate in St Louis, Missouri, the first large-scale Modernist housing scheme to be blown up by public demand. Following further detonations, a positive set of traditions flowed into the growing Post-Modern stream, and the pluralist philosophy so active today. Notable were Contextualism and Radical Eclecticism, Post-Modern Classicism and Regionalism, the heteropolis and the new level of public engagement in city development. After 20 years of success, and then the inevitable commercial rip-offs, Post-Modern architecture succumbed to ersatz, debased by fashion, as were other previous leading movements. Yet, in another historical turn at the Millennium, plural cultures sought a richer identity than the Minimalism on offer and the result was the second great flowering of Post-Modernism. Now, much aided by the computer and the World Wide Web, this tradition re-emerged in an outburst of iconic architecture, a patterned ornament driven by digitisation and the complexity paradigm, which has provided the larger ecological and cosmic picture. Ironically, subtracted of its Post-Modern label, this richer architecture again flourishes as the alternative to a mechanistic Modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Post-Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Jencks, an authority on the subject, provides a lively and accessible account of Post-Modern architecture from its roots in the early 1960s to the present day. In an evolutionary diagram, Jencks charts the variety of streams that now make up the river delta and discusses the main characters from James Stirling to Frank Gehry and Herzog \u0026amp; de Meuron.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990347137253,"sku":"NP9780470688953","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470688953.jpg?v=1761787452","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-story-of-post-modernism-isbn-9780470688953","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}