Charles Jencks
Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture much the way Picasso dominated painting. His outstanding achievements, his vision of a harmonious machine civilization, his paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, ... [... more]
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
 Author: Charles Jencks Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 712.6094147 EAN: 9780711225381 ISBN: 0711225389 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2005-08-12 [... more]
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Iconic Building
Author: Charles Jencks Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 724.6 EAN: 9780847827565 ISBN: 0847827569 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2005-09-06 Release Date: 2005-09-06 [... more]
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The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of ...
Another polemic by Charles Jencks: You have to admire Charles Jencks for promoting Post-Modernism in architecture for 25 years. He makes some intriguing commentaries in this book, but his arguments still ring hollow, largely due to his continued [... more]
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Minimalist Garden, the
Probably expecting too much from this book.: I waited for the book's arrival with high expectation after reading such rave reviews from the readers in Amazon. Whilst this book is well-presented with structured discussions in the topics of extended home, [... more]
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The Minimalist Garden
Probably expecting too much from this book.: I waited for the book's arrival with high expectation after reading such rave reviews from the readers in Amazon. Whilst this book is well-presented with structured discussions in the topics of extended home, [... more]
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A Gardener's Labyrinth: Portraits of People, Plants & Places
A celebration of great English gardeners: Fifty great gardeners are profiled here in this beautiful coffee table book. Chapters are divided as "The Garden Proposed," "The Garden Described," "The Garden Planted," "The [... more]
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Postmodernism For Beginners
The Best in its Genre: So many introductions to postmodernism are boring, or even unreadable simply because they are written by people who cannot write. These "writers" simply parrot the same pomobabble that so many postmodern thinkers indulge [... more]
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Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going What ...
Vomit: 'Post Modernism' often just sounds like an excuse to ramble incessant contradictory bs to justify the meaning behind why things are the way they are. It's some stupid alternative term for the cycle of evolution. The fact that the world is growing [... more]
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Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
surpermarket effect: This collection of texts by Mr. Jencks and Mr. Kropf is a post-modern peace of work: joining different ideas as they were equivalent. At the same time it looks like a way to inform about the theories and manifestoes, in fact, it is a [... more]
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Le Corbusier: And the Continual Revolution in Architecture
Expanded, refined: Jencks third work on LC is an expanded and revised take since his first 'tragic view of architecture'. The author makes his point well and the change of focus over the two books - a tragic view/ a continual revolution is a shift in [... more]
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