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Moderne, Postmoderne und nun Barock? - Entwick- lungslinien der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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"This book is an attempt at architectural criticism" that is how
Robert Venturi opened the discussion on Post-Modernism in
architecture in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecturea
generation ago. And this was a typical beginning. Criticism of the
Modern movement by architects like Le Corbusier Mies van der Rohe
and to extent Frank Lloyd Wright as well that had preceded it was
central to Post-Modernism. Soon the architectural historians joined
in with the architects, particularly Charles Jencks in the
English-speaking world and Heinrich Klotz in Germany. Here too
Post-Modern-ism was the start, with three fundamental critical
points about Modernism: fundamental emptiness of its architecture,
its lack of relation to its surroundings and its overemphasis of
functionalism against decoration. And so, even if one does not use
pamphlets like Tom Wolfe's or Jencks' early work as a yardstick,
the image of the buildings by what are still the best-known
architects of our century is strongly overshadowed. The truth is
that the International Style reflects the basic forces that
architecture can express extraordinarily impressively and al-ways
with decided interplay, and thus also with a pronounced unity of
effect; and additionally it develops these formal values especially
intensively from content. Traditionally such things are called
classical. What followed this, the whole spectrum of styles from
late Modernism via High-Tech and Deconstructivism to Post-Modernism
is all a reaction to the unity of the International Style: either
one point in terms of form or content is taken out, exaggerated and
thus made into its opposite, or such a point is consciously
negated. Until now this phenomenon has been known as Mannerism to
art historians. What is characteristic of Baroque as the period
after High Renaissance Classicism and Mannerism is less clear; in
any case, entirely positive aspects of both found their way into
Baroque, and undoubtedly the latter is closer to High Re-naissance
Classicism in spirit than to Mannerism. Cannot similar things be
seen in the last bare decade of architectural develop-ment? The
foundations for this book were laid during a good year's re-search
at the University of California in Berkeley. The author now holds a
chair at the Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg.
General
Imprint: |
Edition Axel Menges
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Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
1995 |
First published: |
June 1996 |
Authors: |
Stefan Grundmann
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Dimensions: |
294 x 240 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
136 |
Edition: |
Illustrated Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-930698-63-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
3-930698-63-3 |
Barcode: |
9783930698639 |
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