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Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
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Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Charles Jencks (Editor); Karl Kropf (Editor)

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  • Title Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, Chichester
  • Date July 22, 1997
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18010244-6
  • ISBN 9780471976875 / 0471976873
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.84 x 0.75 in (20.78 x 14.83 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture, Modern - 20th century, Architecture, Modern - 20th century -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.1

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About the author

Charles Jencks was the first to demonstrate that Modern architecture in the 1960s and 1970s had undergone a profound mutation into three major approaches - Post-Modernism, Late Modernism and New Modernism. He has shown how our pluralist age has oscillated between these and traditional approaches in his key books: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (sixth edition, 1991), Architecture Today (third edition, 1994), and The New Moderns (1990), all published by Academy.
Karl Kropf is an urbanist engaged in both theoretical research and practice, focusing on the morphogenesis and dynamics of urban form. With a background in the sciences, history and design, he is a member of the Urban Morphology Research Group and a founder member of the International Seminar on Urban Form. He has worked for a number of firms, including Skidmore Owings and Merrill in San Francisco, and as a consultant in France and the UK.