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-''[[The Language of Post-Modern Architecture]]'' is a book on the then emergent [[postmodern architecture]] by [[Charles Jencks]] first published in [[1977]] by [[Academy Editions]]. In subsequent editions, the book was re-titled ''The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture''. +'''''The Language of Post-Modern Architecture''''' is a book on the then emergent [[postmodern architecture]] by [[Charles Jencks]] first published in [[1977]] by [[Academy Editions]]. In subsequent editions, the book was re-titled ''The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture''.
The book's most frequently quoted soundbite is ""[[Modern architecture]] suffered from [[elitism]]. The book's most frequently quoted soundbite is ""[[Modern architecture]] suffered from [[elitism]].

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The Language of Post-Modern Architecture is a book on the then emergent postmodern architecture by Charles Jencks first published in 1977 by Academy Editions. In subsequent editions, the book was re-titled The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture.

The book's most frequently quoted soundbite is ""Modern architecture suffered from elitism. Post-Modernism is trying to get over that elitism not by dropping it, but rather by extending the language of architecture in many different ways —into the vernacular, towards tradition and the commercial slang of the street. Hence the double-coding, the architecture which speaks to the elite and the man on the street."

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The New Paradigm in Architecture tells the story of a movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty years.
The book begins by surveying the counter culture of the 1960s, when Jane Jacobs and Robert Venturi called for a more complex urbanism and architecture. It concludes by showing how such demands began to be realized by the 1990s in a new architecture that is aided by computer design-more convivial, sensuous, and articulate than the Modern architecture it challenges. Promoted by such architects as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, and Peter Eisenman, it has also been adopted by many schools and offices around the world. Charles Jencks traces the history of computer design which is, at its heart, built on the desire for an architecture that communicates with its users, one based on the heterogeneity of cities and global culture.
This book, the first to explore the broad issue of Postmodernism, has fostered its growth in other fields such as philosophy and the arts. First written at the start of an architectural movement in the mid-1970s, it has been translated into eleven languages and has gone through six editions. Now completely rewritten and with two new chapters, this edition brings the history up to date with the latest twists in the narrative and the turn to a new complexity in architecture.




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