TY - BOOK ID - 5163404 TI - Architecture today PY - 1988 SN - 0856709441 9780856709449 PB - London : Academy Editions, DB - UniCat KW - Architecture, Modern KW - Architecture KW - Modernisme KW - Bofill, Ricardo KW - Eisenman, Peter KW - Foster, Norman KW - Fujii, Hiromi KW - Graves, Michael KW - Hollein, Hans KW - Isozaki, Arata KW - Krier, Rob KW - Rogers, Richard KW - Stirling, James KW - Tschumi, Bernard KW - Ungers, Oswald Mathias KW - Venturi, Robert KW - Tschumi, Bernard, KW - Venturi, Robert, KW - Mouvement moderne KW - Années 1980 KW - Tour KW - Eisenman, Peter, KW - Rogers, Richard, KW - Eisenman, Peter, 1932 KW - -Foster, Norman KW - Rogers, Richard, 1933 KW - -Stirling, James KW - Tschumi, Bernard, 1944 KW - -Ungers, Oswald Mathias KW - Venturi, Robert, 1925-2018 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5163404 AB - Architecture today is more varied and interesting than at any other time in its history. Since the decline of the Modernism, which has dominated architectural theory and practice for most of this century, architecture has entered a new period of experimentation and change. Such divergent movments as Late-Modernism, Post-Modernism, the New Classicism, and, most recently, Deconstruction, have given architects unparalleled opportunities to create new styles and also to reassess the value of past architectural forms. The innovative, and in some cass controversial, buildings of the eighties, by extending existing stylistic and technological conventions, will play a major role in determining the architecture of our time. In this up-to-date international survey, Charles Jencks provides an incisive commentary on the crucial trends of the past two decades and defines the latest developments which will lead architecture into the next century. He discusses not only the work of well-established figures such as Ricardo Bofill, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Hiromi Fujii, Mochael Graves, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, Rob Krier, Richard Rogers, James Stirling, Bernard Tschumi, Mathias Ungers, and Robert Venturi, but also many more examples by a younger generation. Both highly readable and thoroughly researched, with a selected bibliography of further reading and a full index, this is an invaluable sourcebook for all those interersted in architecture today. ER -