The Post-Modern Reader, Second Edition Edited by Charles Jencks Post-Modernism has been debated, attacked and defended for over three decades. It is, however, not just a fashion or s
This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie
The New Paradigm in Architecture tells the story of a movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty years. Starting with the counter culture of the 1960s and the call for a co
The Architecture of Hope focuses on an exciting building project that has been underway since the mid-1990s - new cancer caring centers that offer a fresh approach to both architecture and health. Nam
Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal landscapes that often arise from necessity - recycling
Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture much the way Picasso dominated painting. His outstanding achievements, his vision of a harmonious machine civilization, his
When this book first appeared in 1972, it was part of the spirit that would define anew architecture and design era--a new way of thinking ready to move beyond the purist doctrines andformal models of
Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, Postmodernism proclaimed the death of modernism and promoted a new, nonlinear way of approaching architecture and design, spearheaded
