Translation of: Moderne und Postmoderne.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-449) and index.

"This standard work on the postmodern architecture of the past 25 years 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. The more than 500 illustrations, including 96 in color, are in themselves a substantial record of the aesthetic preoccupations of postmodernist architects, their patrons, and their detractors. Heinrich Kotz is one of Europe's leading architecture critics. In this panoramic work he challenges popular notions of postmodernism as synonymous with the stylistic license of eclecticism. He seeks to clarify the postmodern in other than stylistic, historic, or regional terms, and he identifies a long succession of canonical "modern" buildings that prepared the way for what would become known as postmodern long before the word existed. His criteria for what defines the postmodern will be challenged, debated, and quoted by historians and architects alike. Klotz focuses both on architects' individual projects and on their bodies of work, combining structural analysis with an assessment of programmatic and philosophical content. "Not only function, but also fiction!" is the guiding concept of the book. His approach leads quite naturally to a gallery of celebrities from the modern and the postmodern period - Mies, Kahn, Venturi, Moore, Ungers, Rossi, Stirling, Hollein, Gehry, Graves, Meier, Hejduk, Eisenman, Botta, Krier, and Stern among them. Also considered are a host of lesser-known contemporary practitioners, including Rem Koolhaas, Thomas Gordon Smith, and Maurice Culot. -- Book Jacket.

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Translation of: Moderne und postmoderne.

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