Post-Modernism

by Charles Jencks

Surveys post-modern architecture, shows and describes homes, museums, and office buildings, and discusses the post-modern movement in painting and sculpture

Genres: Art, Architecture

360 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Charles Alexander Jencks (born 21 June 1939) is an American architecture theorist and critic, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of modernism and postmodernism are widely read in architectural circles. He studied under the influential architectural historians Sigfried Giedion and Reyner Banham. Jencks now lives in Scotland where he designs landscape sculpture.

Reviews

[SassieMolassie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the book. Gave me a window into an era I never really thought twice about.

[Tricia Perdigon · Rating 3 out of 5]

informative, but a bit dry; it couldn't capture what was exciting about how the symbiotic nature of the design is.