An archeology of postmodern architecture : a reading of Charles Jencks' work / Iheb Guermazi.

Main entry:

Guermazi, Iheb author.

Title & Author:

An archeology of postmodern architecture : a reading of Charles Jencks' work / Iheb Guermazi.

Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest LLC, 2014.

Description:

x, 113 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Washington, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113).
Print reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2014. x, 113 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary:

"A powerful sense of discontinuity and rupture, a simultaneity of theory and practice as well as a critique of bourgeois art forms are some of the common features that modern and postmodern discourses share. Despite the similarities between the two movements, they tend to be portrayed and defined in perfect opposition to each other. Charles Jencks is one of the more prominent theorists who emphasized the differences between the two movements and declared the failure of modernism as a sufficient reason to legitimize the advent of postmodernism. This work attempts to understand the emergence of postmodernism through its relationship to modernism while examining the discursive dimension of the two movements. The goal of this thesis is not aimed at determining to what extent postmodernism was necessary or avoidable, definable or unintelligible, real or merely fictive. In deference to Michel Foucault's Archeology of Knowledge, it examines the reasons and conditions of its emergence, identifying the sites of continuity and rupture between modernism and postmodernism and studying the discursive formations within modernism that facilitated the appearance of postmodernism. It carries out this investigation through the writings of Jencks and in reference to three distinct yet overlapping phases that mark their evolving relationship; representing, defining and classifying."--Page iii.

Subject:

Jencks, Charles Criticism and interpretation.
Jencks, Charles.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Architecture postmoderne.
Postmodern.
American architects.
American architectural critics.
American architectural historians.

Form/genre:

Theses.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288850
Call No.: BIB 230815
Status: Available

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