The History of Postmodern Architecture

by Heinrich Klotz

Book Overview

This first standard work on the past 25 years in postmodern architecture documents a rich and controversial period. It provides a fascinating, clear, and provocative definition of the phenomena of postmodernism, particularly in relation to the major ideas of modernism. Over 500 illustrations, including 96 in full color, are in themselves a substantial record of the aesthetic preoccupations of postmodernist architects, their patrons, and their detractors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262111233
• ISBN13: 9780262111232
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 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.