Textbook
An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the PresentISBN: 978-1-4051-8062-7
Paperback
286 pages
April 2011, ©2011, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the
point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An
Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first
narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution
in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the
implications of this intellectual upheaval.
- The first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last fifty years
- surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and tectonics
- Offers a comprehensive overview of the significant changes that architectural thinking has undergone in the past fifteen years
- Includes an analysis of where architecture stands and where it will likely move in the coming years