Author : Michael Collins
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN :
Presents an extensive historical, analytical and descriptive survey of the major Post-modern designers and their works. Features a wide range of designer objects including furniture, ceramics, metalware, lighting, jewelry, fabrics and carpets with illustrations of the best and most representative examples.
Author : Owen Hopkins
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780714878126
A curated collection of Postmodern architecture in all its glorious array of vivid non-conformity This unprecedented book takes its subtitle from Postmodernist icon Robert Venturi's spirited response to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that 'less is more'. One of the 20th century's most controversial styles, Postmodernism began in the 1970s, reached a fever pitch of eclectic non-conformity in the 1980s and 90s, and after nearly 40 years is now enjoying a newfound popularity. Postmodern Architecture showcases examples of the movement in a rainbow of hues and forms from around the globe.
Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN :
Author : Wallace Wadsworth
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0486478440
This rediscovered 1930s classic features nine stories of adventurous machines, including a lazy automobile and a runaway elevator. Thirty full-page color images, numerous black-and-white illustrations, plus an audio CD featuring readings of all the tales.
Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781592476428
Author : Robert Venturi
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870702822
Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 1992-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822310907
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
Author : Terry Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000701417
Revisiting Postmodernism offers an engaging, wide-ranging and highly illustrated account of postmodernism in architecture from its roots in the 1940s to its ongoing relevance today. This book invites readers to see Postmodernism in a new light: not just a style but a cultural phenomenon that embraces all areas of life and thrives on complexity and pluralism, in contrast to the strait-laced, single-style, top-down inclination of its predecessor, Modernism. While focusing on architecture, this book also explores aspects such as urban masterplanning, furniture design, art and literature. Looking at Postmodernism through the lens of examples from around the world, each chapter explores the movement in the UK on the one hand, and its international counterparts on the other, reflecting on the historical movement but also how postmodernism influences practices today. This book offers the insider’s view on postmodernism by the author, a recognised pioneer in the field of postmodern architecture and a prestigious and authoritative participant in the postmodern movement.
Author : Jennifer Post
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781938461880
* Jennifer Post Design has been featured on the AD100 list many times* This is her second monograph* Features works at some of New York's most lavish real estateModern is the second monograph on Jennifer Post, the AD100 designer best known for her sleek white minimalist interiors. The book features Post's latest and most significant projects to date - the majority of which have never been published. Working in some of New York's most impressive luxury buildings as well as in the Hamptons, Florida, and the Caribbean, the style of these interiors reflects a shift in her design philosophy. As she moves away from purely monochromatic spaces and introduces more vivid colors and dark contrasts, Post still works tirelessly to create modern lifestyles for her clients. Featuring three double-page gatefolds showcasing a few especially jaw-dropping interiors, Modern is a reflection on her recent transformation as she looks forward to her next brilliant act.
Author : Alan Sokal
Publisher : Picador
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1466862408
In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions.
