Volume 30, Number 20 · December 22, 1983
Rebuilding Architecture
By Ada Louise Huxtable
Architecture Today
by Charles Jencks, with a contribution by William Chaitkin
Abrams, 359 pp., $65.00
Modern Architecture: A Critical History
by Kenneth Frampton
Oxford University Press, 324 pp., $19.95; $9.95 (paper)
Modern Architecture since 1900
by William J.R. Curtis
Prentice-Hall, 416 pp., $39.95; $29.95 (paper)
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
by Richard Oliver
Architectural History Foundation MIT Press, 296 pp., $30.00
The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy
by Klaus Herdeg
MIT Press, 125 pp., $22.50
How is the recent architect literature dealing with the transition between modernism and postmodernism? This unusually provocative moment when the art of building is straddling orthodoxy and revolt has produced some of the most spectacular books and periodicals that the profession has ever seen. It soon becomes clear, however, that much of this outpouring will not move the art of architecture forward. Neither buildings nor the books about buildings are escaping the dead ends and enchantment with trivia of the popular culture, or the more dubious, esoteric concerns of the academic culture.
Review, 7303 words
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