Ecstatic Architecture: The Surprising Link

by Charles Jencks and Maggie Toy

Today there is a broad trend towards an architecture that could be called ecstatic - partly motivated by pure architectural ideas pushed to their limits and a shift from functional concerns to sensual ones. Ecstatic Architecture is stimulating, holistic and overpowering; its primary contemporary monument is Frank Gehry's New Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa. Ecstatic Architecture has opened up architectural thought and made links with historic building...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471983985
• ISBN13: 9780471983989
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.8"