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The second half of the 20th Century witnessed an outburst of theories and manifestoes that explored the possibilities of architecture: it's language, evolution and social relevance. The many 'crises in architecture' and emerging urban and ecological problems questioned the current orthodoxy: Modernism was criticised, questioned and overthrown, only to be extended, subverted and revivified. The result was a cascade of new theories, justifications and recipes for building. This anthology, first edited in 1997, brought together a coherent collection of texts that tracked these important shifts from all the major architectural thinkers and practitioners.
In this new edition of the book, over twenty additional extracts are published that present an entirely new axis for architectural thinking. Whereas much of the 20th-Century thought was dominated by the 'perceived crisis' in Modernity, 'the new paradigm' or 'complexity paradigm' has been excited by the possibilities of Emergence in the Science of Complexity and Chaos theory. The reach of complexity is expressed through the primacy of Benoit Mandelbrot's theories on geometry, with an extract from his manifesto on fractals; and furthered through an outline of Emergence by Steven Johnson. It is also handled through texts that focus on the diagram and are demonstrated in its more applied form through passages dealing with the global city and culture.
Essential for the student and practitioner alike, Theories and Manifestoes since its first edition has established itself as the touchstone book for architectural thought. It features seminal texts by Reyner Banham, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Colin Rowe and Robert Venturi. This is now ejected with greater currency with extracts from: Cecil Balmond, Foreign Office Architects, Daniel Libeskind, MVRDV, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and West 8.
In this new edition of the book, over twenty additional extracts are published that present an entirely new axis for architectural thinking. Whereas much of the 20th-Century thought was dominated by the 'perceived crisis' in Modernity, 'the new paradigm' or 'complexity paradigm' has been excited by the possibilities of Emergence in the Science of Complexity and Chaos theory. The reach of complexity is expressed through the primacy of Benoit Mandelbrot's theories on geometry, with an extract from his manifesto on fractals; and furthered through an outline of Emergence by Steven Johnson. It is also handled through texts that focus on the diagram and are demonstrated in its more applied form through passages dealing with the global city and culture.
Essential for the student and practitioner alike, Theories and Manifestoes since its first edition has established itself as the touchstone book for architectural thought. It features seminal texts by Reyner Banham, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Colin Rowe and Robert Venturi. This is now ejected with greater currency with extracts from: Cecil Balmond, Foreign Office Architects, Daniel Libeskind, MVRDV, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and West 8.
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Villa Garches, recently reoccupied, and the houses for Mr Jaoul and his son, now nearing completion, are possibly the most significant buildings by Le Corbusier to be seen in Paris to-day, for they represent the extremes of his vocabulary: the former, rational, urbane, programmatic, the latter personal and anti-mechanistic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Architectural Association, Academy Editions, Academy Group Ltd, Los Angeles, Peter Eisenman, Machine Age, Charles Jencks, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Massachusetts Institute, Philip Johnson, Christopher Alexander, Kenneth Yeang, Kisho Kurokawa, Robert Venturi, United States, Yale University, Cambridge University, Las Vegas, Oxford University Press, Rational Architecture, Bernard Tschumi, Columbia University New!
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Villa Garches, recently reoccupied, and the houses for Mr Jaoul and his son, now nearing completion, are possibly the most significant buildings by Le Corbusier to be seen in Paris to-day, for they represent the extremes of his vocabulary: the former, rational, urbane, programmatic, the latter personal and anti-mechanistic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Architectural Association, Academy Editions, Academy Group Ltd, Los Angeles, Peter Eisenman, Machine Age, Charles Jencks, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Massachusetts Institute, Philip Johnson, Christopher Alexander, Kenneth Yeang, Kisho Kurokawa, Robert Venturi, United States, Yale University, Cambridge University, Las Vegas, Oxford University Press, Rational Architecture, Bernard Tschumi, Columbia University New!
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- The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books) by Aldo Rossi on 4 pages
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) by Christopher Alexander on page 30, page 80, and page 220
- Collage City (Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur) (German Edition) by Colin Rowe on page 59, page 61, and page 64
- Collage City by Colin Rowe on page 59, page 61, and page 64
- A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture by The Prince of Wales Prince Charles in Front Matter, and page 196
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- Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams (Icons of America) by Mark Kingwell in Back Matter
- Design First: Design-based Planning for Communities by David Walters in Index
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