Post-Modern Classicism
The New Synthesis
ed. by Charles Jencks

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Editor(s)

Charles Jencks

Publication

London : Architectural Design and Academy Editions, 1980

Scope

143 Pages, illustrated, 28 cm.

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Jencks discusses the evolution of Postmodern Classicism through the 1970s. He talks about Stirling’s Stuttgart museum, and Michael Grave’s Portland Building as prime examples of architectural semiotics, playful site investigations, use of cliches to clarify, and low cost construction. He defines Postmodern Classicism through semiotics and the classical orders. He also describes the necessity of primitiveness and how mass culture turning Classicism into kitsch propelled the Postmodern movement.

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Person as subject

Venturi & Rauch, Hans Hollein, James Stirling, Michael Grave, Ricardo Bofill, ...[et al.]

Keywords

architects , architecture theory , post modernism

Location

Cabinet 15 - 4: Architectuur en Kunst

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