Postmodern Architecture 20 Lectures (Illustrated Collector's Edition)

Author: Xu Li, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: In 1977, American architectural critic Robert Venturi published a book titled Postmodern Architecture Language. In this book, Venturi stated, "Modern architecture died on July 15, 1972, at 3:32 a.m. in St. Louis, Missouri?" Due to this sarcastic remark, the theory of "the death of modernism" gained widespread attention for a time, and the new banner of "postmodern architecture" was thus raised on the historical stage. Of course, Robert Venturi was the one who truly developed the theory of postmodern architecture. In a conversation in 1980, Venturi said, "In a sense, I think we ourselves were part of modernism, a part that evolved from it." In fact, the definitions of "modernism" and "postmodernism" have always been ambiguous and vague, especially in the field of Chinese architecture. The purpose of this book's publication is to attempt to clarify the context and provide readers with a clear understanding of this architectural movement. The nearly 300 exquisite images in this book are also rare and valuable architectural resources.