Late-modern architecture and other essays

by Charles Jencks

Late-modernism has now become one of the most important contemporary architectural movements, and has provided some of the most stimulating and sophisticated buildings of the 1970s. In this book, Charles Jencks analyses the defining aspects of the style, and discusses in a series of essays the work of its leading exponents in Europe, America and Japan. Profusely illustrated in black and white and in color.

Genres: Architecture

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

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

[Lee Hunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book is pretty cool. good reference material for city architecture of the 60s & 70s. go glass and metal.