Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Theory and History of Architecture |
| Publisher | Wily |
Publication date | 1997 to date |
Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture is a book by historian and architectural theorist Charles Jencks[1] who is well known for his contribution in post-modernism discourse. Jencks as the first architectural historian who claimed for the death of modernism,[2] here shows how post-modern architecture have developed its fundamental theories.[3]
Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture as an anthology of architectural theories consists of over 120 major theories and manifestoes that have been proposed since 1950's.[4] The book was originally published in 1997, and then the second edition of it in 2006 by : Wiley-Academy. Dividing into six sections of Post-Modern, Post-Modern Ecology, Traditional, Late Modern, New Modern, Complexity and Chaos theory, it has covered all the main issues have been discussed the years 1955–2005 in architectural theory.[5]
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- ^ Jencks, Charles; Kropf, Karl (12 April 1997). Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture. Academy Editions. OCLC 37990590 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ "The day modern architecture died". 25 September 2015.
- ^ Villanueva Cajide, Beatriz. 2016, A Review on How Contemporary Architecture Theories are being built, Athens Journal of Architecture - Volume 2, Issue 4 – Pages 271-282.
- ^ Jencks, Charles; Kropf, Karl S. (12 April 1997). "Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture". S2CID 191110433.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Jencks, Charles; Kropf, Karl, eds. (12 April 2006). Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture. Wiley-Academy. ISBN 9780470014691 – via mpl Library Catalog.