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Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era (Hardcover)
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Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era (Hardcover)
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The history of modern architecture has been well covered in the
classical surveys of Sigfried Giedion, Kenneth Frampton, William
Curtis, Alan Colquhoun, and others who traced the developments of
this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of
the 20th century until the beginning of the 1970s, when a major
contesting movement appeared on the scene, labelled as
Post-Modernism. Taking a similar approach, this book explores the
different tendencies that affected the developments of the past six
decades, beginning around the 1960s, when a new wind started to
blow from within Modernism, leading to different reactions and
counter-reactions, the effects of which are still felt today. This
book provides a survey of contemporary developments, starting with
an introductory chapter on the transitional period of the 1960s and
then examining the different movements that followed, charting a
middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine
architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the
'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often
skirts the discussion of its formal aspects. Global in scope, each
chapter begins with a theoretical overview of the 'paradigm' in
question, leading to an examination of its main actors and
projects. The survey concludes with a section on more recent
trends, including environmental concerns that placed sustainability
as one of the main objectives in architecture in parallel to an
aesthetic direction that blurs the boundaries between architecture
and art, relying on technological innovations to develop ever more
complex forms.
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