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Architecture Today

by James Steele

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Synopsis:

With the collapse of Modernism in the 1960s, architecture has fragmented and evolved in many different directions, each driven by its own ideologies and theories. This book sets out a clear and comprehensive guide to the prominent styles and movements, tracing the work of the main protagonists of contemporary architecture.

Architecture Today is divided thematically into sixteen chapters, offering an incisive critique of the predominant trends, stylistic and regional, of the last twenty-five years. These include the Los Angeles Avant-Garde and Experimentation in Japan, as well as the stylistic upheavals of Post-Modernism and Deconstructivism and the global development of Ecological Architecture and the Contemporary Vernacular. Biographies of the architects featured are also included in the book.

Free from the jargon that often characterizes architectural criticism, Architecture Today is essential reading for all those interested in architecture, the visual arts and modern culture.

Synopsis:

This work is a survey of trends in architecture worldwide since the 1960s. It takes as its starting point the international modernism that was once the norm, and charts its disintegration and the counter-movements and styles that have replaced it over the last 30 years.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780714840970
Author:
Steele, James
Publisher:
Phaidon Press
Location:
London
Subject:
Criticism
Subject:
Architecture, modern
Edition Description:
Bibliography.Includes index.
Series Volume:
00-486
Publication Date:
January 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
512
Dimensions:
11.38x9.90x1.76 in. 6.14 lbs.

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