History of Postmodern Architecture

by Heinrich Klotz

Book Overview

Breeding on remote ocean islands and spending much of its life foraging for food across vast stretches of seemingly empty seas, the albatross remains a legend for most people. And yet, humans are threatening the albatross family to such an extent that it is currently the most threatened bird group in the world. In this extensively researched, highly readable book, Robin W. Doughty and Virginia Carmichael tell the story of a potentially catastrophic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262610671
• ISBN13: 9780262610674
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

comprehensive survey of postmodernism

Klotz's work offers definitely a better survey of Postmodernism than Jencks' multiple texts and revisions on the subject. Klotz's scholarly work also shows the continuities rather than the radical break between Postmodernism and Modernism. How else can we explain Aalto's later works, Corbusier's Ronchamp, and the work of BBPR in Italy? The critical revisions of dogmatic modernism were already in the air around 1950, and many architects can hardly be labelled in one camp or another. This is what makes this history book still worth reading today. It is rich in details and theoretical insights into the developments of architecture in the Twentieth century.