TY - BOOK AU - Jencks,Charles TI - Architecture today SN - 0810918838 AV - NA680 .J448 1988 PY - 1988/// CY - New York PB - H.N. Abrams KW - Architecture, Modern KW - 20th century N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: pages 344-345; Late-modernism versus Post-modernism: The Two Party System; -- Late Modernism Departures; -- Slick-Tech: The Rhetoric of Corporate Proficiency; -- Twenties Revivalism: The White, Ideal Pavilions of Private Life; -- Late Modern Space: A Sign of Agnosticism; -- Post Modernism; -- From Historicism to Radical Eclecticism; -- From Straight Revivalism to Distorted Ornament; -- Neo-Vernacular:The Sign of an Instant Community; -- Ad Hoc and Urbanist: Toward a City with Memory; -- Metaphor and Metaphysics: The Quandary of Content; -- Post-modern Space: Layering, Elision, and Surprise; -- Architecture Since 1980; -- Late-modernism since 1980; -- The New Expressionism; -- Monumental Expressionism; -- Intuitive Modernism: The Picturesque Use of bstract Vocabulary; -- The Architecture of Deconstruction: The Pleasures of Absence; -- The Battle of High-Tech: Great Building with Great Faults; -- Post-modernism since 1980, Post-modern Classicism: The Synthesis of a Public Language; -- Post-modern Regionalism: The Expression of Place; -- Postscript: Architectural Culture in the World Village ER -