After Modern Architecture by Paolo Portoghesi (Rizzoli 1980) is one of the sharpest analyses of postmodernity and its effects on architecture.
After Modern Architecture is an examination of the worldwide phenomenon of Post-Modern architecture. Paolo Portoghesi, renowned Italian architect and organizer of the 1980 architecture section of the Venic Biennale, emphasizes the reaction during the last decade to the mass conformism of the International Style and, what is considered to be the failure of the ideals and illusions of the Modern Movement – all of which has produced the counter-movement called Post-Modern architecture.
Paolo Portoghesi documents and illustrates this counter-movement and compares the unique American and European developments from Charles Moore to Aldo Rossi, from Pihilp Johnson to Mario Botta, from Louis Kahn to Michael Graves.
– Paolo Portoghesi, After Modern Architecture (Rizzoli, 1980), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings except for a couple of pencil notes here and there and the previous owner’s signature on the front cover. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear and use. There is an old price sticker on the back cover.
