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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JENCKS Street Sign ~ Personalized Family Lastname ...
 Features: Aluminum Brand New Sign 4 x 18 Inches Rounded Corners Predrilled for Hanging Great Gift Idea MPN: stnon418last4-3384 [... more]
$19.95
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Postmodern Times: A Critical Guide to the Contemporary
These fifteen new essays engage topics from architecture to politics and from fast food to film, revealing the problems and potential of postmodern cultural criticism. Resisting the temptation to use postmodern as a catch-all label. Postmodern Times [... more]
$52.39
A1 Books |
Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
surpermarket effect: This collection of texts by Mr. Jencks and Mr. Kropf is a post-modern piece 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]
$50.00
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Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction
Responsive Arguments for a Better Future: Extract from a review in Vol 1, Issue 2 of Archnet--IJAR, July 2007 In this book, Nikos A. Salingaros sets the stage for a new thinking about the current status of architecture. Twelve essays critically analyze [... more]
$23.00
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The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families
Marriage in a sociological and historical context: "Two nations, between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy." Benjamin Disraeli was speaking of the nations of the rich and the poor, but Wilson sees underlying causes. One nation is [... more]
$13.95
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The Le Corbusier Guide
Excellent Guide and Reference: A most valuable reference. The descriptions provide insight into both the conceptual and literal origins of each work. Locales are well described. Nearby works by other early modernists are mentioned together with addresses. [... more]
$24.95
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The History and Philosophy of Marriage: A Christian ...
From truthbearer.org: In September 1994, only 10 months after first receiving revelation of the truth of Christian Polygamy, (and only two months after first publishing my newspaper, THE STANDARD BEARER), I found a very interesting book in the Portland ( [... more]
$29.99
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Iconic Building
I like it: I find it very entertaining to read through. Some architecture books can be dry and "technical" in their description and yet, this book reads like a novel. It reminds me of "The Edifice Complex" written by another favourite [... more]
$35.00
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Catalysis in Chemistry and Enzymology
one of the more important books on catalysis: jencks' classic tome "catalysis in chemistry and enzymology" gives such insights into the mechanisms of enzymes which many people are still working with. it's hard to believe this book is as old as [... more]
$29.95
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Postmodernism: A Reader
good for students just learning about "postmodernism": This is a good anthology for those just learning about postmodernism, but it's kind of silly if you know anything about this world-o-theory; it's just excerpts from larger essays (includes [... more]
$31.50
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Biography - Jencks, Charles Alexander (1939-): An ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 11 Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
$9.95
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