Main entry:

Jencks, Charles, author.

Title & Author:

The language of post-modern architecture / Charles A. Jencks.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1977.

Description:

104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The death of modern architecture -- The modes of architectural communication -- Post-modern architecture.
Part I. The death of modern architecture: -- Crisis in architecture -- Univalent form -- Univalent formalists and inadvertent symbolists -- Univalent content -- Part II. The modes of architectural communication: -- Metaphor -- Worlds -- Syntax -- Semantics -- Part III. Post-modern architecture: -- Recent departures -- Multivalent architecture.

Summary:

"A classic account which, when written in 1977, was the first to define post-modernism in architecture, an event which led to subsequent adoption of the term in many other fields. It is the story of the failure of modern architecture to communicate with its users and the attempt of post-modernists to overcome this failure with a richer, more widely shared language--post-modern classicism."--Google Books

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0847800717
9780847800711
0847800873 (pbk.)
9780847800872 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Communication in architectural design.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle.
Communication en design architectural.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture postmoderne.
Postmodern.
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Postmoderne
Bouwkunst.
Postmodernisme.
architectuur
architecture
Architecture (General)
Architectuur (algemeen)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 58691
Call No.: ID PLB; ID:90-B6981
Status: Available