ISBN: 0289798434
Godina izdanja: 1971
Oblast: Arhitektura
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Charles Jencks - Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods
Studio Vista, London, 1971
128 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

21 cm | Architectural design | Fascinating study of forecasting as applied to architecture and the built environment in the early 1970s.

This classic of prediction, written in 1969, has now been brought up to date, the prophecies judges, and the omens extended to 2030.The success rate of Jencks` forecasts and his method of combining expert prediction with structural analysis make this book an important contribution to the art of conjecture. Not only did he predict the a series of innovations that have changed the world, such as the Internet, but he identified six main architectural traditions that continuously transform over time. This provides a method of gauging what are likely to be the future movements in architecture, a useful and fascinating tool for speculation. No other book of forecasting is like it, a hypertext of retrospection, judgement and further prophecy.

Contents:
1. Philosophies of the future
2. Inexorable trends
3. The unselfconscious tradition
4. Scenario of the conscious traditions
5. The self-conscious tradition
6. The activist tradition
7. The intuitive tradition
8. The logical tradition
9. The idealist tradition
10. The shift in belief

Charles Alexander Jencks (born 21 June 1939) is an American architecture theorist and critic, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of modernism and postmodernism are widely read in architectural circles. He studied under the influential architectural historians Sigfried Giedion and Reyner Banham. Jencks now lives in Scotland where he designs landscape sculpture.


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