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Title: THE ARCHITECTURE OF DEMOCRACY - The Phoenix municipal government center design competition.
Description: London, Academy Design, 1987. 1st edition. Paperback, 27,5cmx22,5cm, Good copy /Cover in color, 'Architectural Design Profile' - 69. Contents: I). Edith Tonelli: Foreword. II). Charles Jencks: Democracy: The ideology and ideal of the west. II). Charles Jencks & Maggie Valentine: The architecture of democracy - The hidden tradition. III). Edward C. Wundram & Gerald R. Plock: The Phoenix competition. IV). Charles Jencks: Phoenix style and free-style Classicism. V). The Phoenix competition projects: 1). Barton Myers. 2). Mixhael Graves. 3). Arata Isozaki. 4). Ricardo Legoretta. 5). Charles Moore. 6). Hammond Beeby & Babka. 7). Robert A. M. Stern. 8). ELS Design Group. 9). Tai Soo Kim. VI). David Gebhard: Civic presence in California's cities - Where and how? With notes. 130 illustrations, most in color. Charles Alexander Jencks (*1939) is an American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of modernism and postmodernism are widely read in architectural circles. He studied under the influential architectural historians Sigfried Giedion and Reyner Banham. Jencks now lives in Scotland where he designs landscape sculpture. 80 pag.

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