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Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture is a book by historian and architectural theorist Charles Jencks [1] who is well known for his contribution in post-modernism discourse. Jencks as the first architectural historian who claimed for the death of modernism, [ 2 ] here shows how post-modern architecture have developed its ...
Architecture and Modernity: A Critique is a 1999 architecture book by the architectural theoretician and historian Hilde Heynen. Starting from the first decades of the 20th century, Heynen attempts to examine the relationship between critical theory and modern architecture . [ 1 ]
Tropical Modernism, or Tropical Modern is a style of architecture that merges modernist architecture principles with tropical vernacular traditions, emerging in the mid-20th century. The term is used to describe modernist architecture in various regions of the world, including Latin America, Asia and Africa, as detailed below.
Over the course of Hitchcock's career, he wrote more than a dozen books on architecture. His Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1958) is an exhaustive study of more than 150 years of architecture that was widely used as a textbook in architectural history courses from the 1960s to the 1980s, and is still a useful reference today.
Avant-garde architecture is architecture which is innovative and radical. There have been a variety of architects and movements whose work has been characterised in this way, especially Modernism . Other examples include Constructivism , Neoplasticism ( De Stijl ), Neo-futurism , Deconstructivism , Parametricism and Expressionism .
The book illustrates the modern paradigm in architecture emerging from the social, technological, and urban contexts in the 19th century, and seeks to pursue its diverse processes in diverse geographies and times, rejecting the understandings of modernism as a homogenic entity. [5]
Tropical Modernism, or Tropical Modern is a style of architecture that merges modernist architecture principles with tropical vernacular traditions, emerging in the mid-20th century. This movement responded to the unique climatic and cultural conditions of tropical regions, primarily in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands. [ 1 ]
This category is intended for articles concerning architects, styles and buildings of the 20th century modernist architecture (i.e. high modernism in architecture). It includes the Bauhaus , Mid-Century Modern , International style , Brutalism , and other regional expressions.