Theories and Manifestos of Contemporary Architecture

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The last forty years have seen an outburst of theories and manifestoes which explore the possibilities of architecture: its language, evolution and social relevance. With many 'crises in architecture' and the obvious urban and ecological problems, Modernism has been criticised, questioned, overthrown, extended, subverted and revivified - not a peaceful time for architectural thought and production. The result has been a cascade of new theories,...
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The last forty years have seen an outburst of theories and manifestoes which explore the possibilities of architecture: its language, evolution and social relevance. With many 'crises in architecture' and the obvious urban and ecological problems, Modernism has been criticised, questioned, overthrown, extended, subverted and revivified - not a peaceful time for architectural thought and production. The result has been a cascade of new theories, justifications and recipes for building.

This anthology, edited by the well-known historian and critic Charles Jencks, and the urbanist and theorist Karl Kropf, collects the main texts which define these changes. Essential for the student and practitioner alike, it presents over 120 of the key arguments of today's major architectural philosophers and gurus. These show that the Modern architecture of the early part of this century has mutated into three main traditions: a critical and ecological Post-Modernism; a High-Tech and sculptural Late Modernism; and a deconstructive, subversive New Modernism.

Here are the seminal texts of James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Frank Gehry, Reyner Banham, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and many others who have changed the discourse of architecture. Here also are the anti-Modern texts of the traditionalists - Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, Quinlan Terry, Prince Charles and others. Many of these texts are concise, edited versions of influential books.

Highly informative and richly illustrated with over forty drawings and photographs, this volume is a vital learning and teaching tool for all those interested in the philosophies of contemporaryarchitecture.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780471976875
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/28/1997
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 312
  • Product dimensions: 6.04 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet 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.
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Table of Contents

POST-MODERN.
1955 James Stirling From Garches to Jaoul: Le Corbusier as Domestic Architect in 1927 and 1953.
1956 James Stirling Ronchamp: Le Corbusier's Chapel and the Crisis of Rationalsim.
1960 Kevin Lynch The Image of the City.
1961 N John Harbraken Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing.
1961 Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
1962 Aldo Van Eyck Team 10 Primer.
1965 Christopher Alexander A City is not a Tree.
1965 Christian Norberg-Schulz Intentions in Architecture.
1966 Aldo Rossi The Architecture of the City.
1966 Robert Venturi Complexity and Contradiction in Architecutre.
1969 Charles Jencks Semiology and Architecutre.
1970 Giancarlo De Carlo Architecture's Public.
1972 Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver Adhocism.
1972 Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour Learning from Las Vegas.
1975 Charles Jencks The Rise of Post Modern Architecture.
1975 Rob Krier Urban Space.
1975 Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter Collage City.
1975 Joseph Rykwert Ornament is no Crime.
1976 Aldo Rossi An Analogical Architecture.
1977 Kisho Kurokawa Metabolism in Architecture.
1977 Kent C Bloomer and Charles W Moore Body, Memory and Architecture.
1978 Leon Krier Rational Architecure: The Reconstruction of the City.
1978 Anthony Vidler The Third Typology.
1979 Christopher Alexander The Timeless Way of Building.
1980 Dolores Hayden What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like?
Speculations on Housing, Urban Design and Human Work.
1980 Charles Jencks Towards a Radical Eclecticism.
1980 Paolo Portoghesi The End of Prohibitionism.
1980 Site Notes on the Philosophy of SITE.
1982 MichaelGraves A Case for Figurative Architecture.
1982 Oswald Mathias Ungers Architecture as Theme.
1983 Kenneth Frampton Towards a Critical Regionlism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance.
1983 Lucien Kroll The Architecture of Resistance.
1984 Memphis The Memphis Idea.
1987 Kisho Kurokawa The Philosophy of Symbiosis.
1989 Steven Holl Anchoring.
1991 Frank O Gehry On his Own House.
1991 Itsuko Hasegawa Architecture as Another Nature.
1991 Eric Owen Moss Which Truth do You Want to Tell.
1993 Frank O Gehry On the American Center, Paris: An Interview.
1993 Jeffrey Kipnis Towards a New Architecutre: Folding.
1993 Greg Lynn Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple.
1996 Arata Isozaki The Island Nation Aesthetic.
1996 Charles Jencks 13 Propositions of Post-Modern Architecture.
POST-MODERN ECOLOGY.
1969 Ian McHarg Deisgn with Nature.
1979 Sim van der Ryn and Steriling Bunnell Integral Design.
1984 Anne Whiston Spirn The Granite Grarden.
1984 Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd Bioshelters, Ocean Arks and City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design.
1986 Hassan Fathy Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture.
1987 Kenneth Yeang Tropical Urban Regionalism.
1990 Chistopher Day Places of the Soul.
1990 James Wines Architect's Statement.
1991 Team Zoo/Atelier Zo Principles of Design.
1991 Brenda and Robert Vale Green Architecture.
1992 William McDonough The Hannover Principles.
1993 Peter Calthorpe The Next American Metropolis.
1994 Kenneth Yeang Bioclimiatic Skyscrapers.
1996 Sim van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan Ecological Design.
TRADITIONAL.
1969 Hassan Fathy Architecture for the Poor.
1976 Robet MaGuire The Value of Tradition.
1977 David Watkin Morality and Architecture.
1978 The Brussels Declaration Reconstruction of the European City.
1980 Maurice Culot Reconstructing the City in Stone.
1983 Demetri Porphyrios Classicism is Not a Style.
1984 Leon Krier Building and Architecture.
1984 Robert Am Stern On Style, Classicism and Pedagogy.
1985 HRH The Prince of Wales RIBA Gala Speech.
1986 Alexander Tzonis Liane Lefaivre Critical Classicism: The Tragic Function.
1987 HRH The Prince of Wales Mansion House Speech.
1989 Duany + Plater-Zyberk Traditional Neighbourhood Development Ordinance.
1989 Quinlan Terry Architecture and Theology.
1989 HRH The Prince of Wales A Vision of Britain.
1992 The Urban Villages Group Urban Villages.
1994 Allan Greenberg Why Classical Architecture is Modern.
1994 Roger Scruton Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism.
LATE MODERN.
1954 Philip Johnson the Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture.
1955 Alison and Peter Smithson and Theo Crosby The New Brutalism.
1956 Paul Rudolph The Six Determinants of Architectural Form.
1960 Reyner Banham Theory and Design in the First Machine Age.
1962 Cedric Price Activity and Charge.
1962 Alison and Peter Smithson Team 10 Primer.
1964 Christopher Alexander Notes on the Synthesis of Form.
1964 Archigram Universal Structure.
1964 John Hejduk Statement.
1964 Fumihiko Maki The Megastructure.
1966 Superstudio Description of the Microevent/Microenvironment.
1968 Peter Cook The Metamorphosis of an English Town (drawing).
1969 Reyner Banham The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment.
1969 Louis I Kahn Silence and Light.
1969 Cedric Price Non-Plan.
1972 Peter Eisenman Cardboard Architecture.
1973 Manfredo Tafuri Architecture and Utopia.
1975 Philip Johnson What Makes Me Tick.
1975 Piano+Rogers Statement.
1976 Lionel March The Logic Deisgn and the Question of Value.
1985 Richard Rogers Observations on Architecture.
1990 Kenneth Frampton Rappel a l'Ordre, the Case for the Tectonic.
1991 Tadao Ando Beyond Horizons in Architecture.
1994 Peter Rice The Role of the Engineer.
1994 Ian Ritchie (Well) Connected Architecture.
NEW MODERN.
1976 Peter Eisenman Post-Functionalism.
1977 Bernard Tschumi The Pleasure of Architecture.
1978 Coop Himmelblau The Future of Splendid Desolation.
1978 Rem Koolhaas Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.
1979 Daniel Libeskind End Space.
1980 Coop Himmelblau Architecture Must Blaze.
1981 Bernard Tschumi The Manhattan Transcripts.
1982 Zaha Hadid Randomness vs Arbitrariness.
1983 Zaha Hadid The Eighty-Nine Degrees.
1983 Daniel Libeskind Unoriginal Signs.
1984 Peter Eisenman The End of the Classical: The End of the End, the End of the Beginning.
1986 John Hejduk Thoughts of an Architect.
1988 Coop Himmelblau The Dissipation of Our Bodies in the City.
1988 Jeffrey Kipnis Forms of Irrationality.
1988 Mark Wigley Deconstructivist Architecture.
1991 Daniel Libeskind Upside Down X.
1992 Peter Eisenman Visions Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media.
1993 Will Alsop Towards an Architectrue of Pratical Delight.
1993 Thom Mayne Connected Isolation.
1993 Lebbeus Woods Manifesto.
1994 Rem Koolhaas What Ever Happened to Urbanism?
1994 Rem Koolhaas Bigness: Or the Problem of Large.
Editors' Note.
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