Studies in Tectonic Culture The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture

Name: Studies in Tectonic Culture The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture
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ISBN: 9780262561495

ISBN-10: 0262561492

ISBN-13: 9780262561495

Edition: 3rd 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Kenneth Frampton, John Cava

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Kenneth Frampton's long-awaited follow-up to his classic A Critical History of Modern Architecture is certain to influence any future debate on the evolution of modern architecture. Studies in Tectonic Culture is nothing less than a rethinking of the entire modern architectural tradition. The notion of tectonics as employed by Frampton -- the focus on architecture as a constructional craft -- constitutes a direct challenge to current mainstream thinking on the artistic limits of postmodernism, and suggests a convincing alternative. Indeed, Frampton argues, modern architecture is invariably as much about structure and construction as it is about space and abstract form. Composed of ten…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 3.410
Language: English

Kenneth Frampton is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Reflections on the Scope of the Tectonic



Greco-Gothic and Neo-Gothic: The Anglo-French Origins of Tectonic Form



The Rise of the Tectonic: Core Form and Art Form in the German Enlightenment, 1750-1870



Frank Lloyd Wright and the Text-Tile Tectonic



Auguste Perret and Classical Rationalism



Mies van der Rohe: Avant-Garde and Continuity



Louis Kahn: Modernization and the New Monumentality, 1944-1972



Jorn Utzon: Transcultural Form and the Tectonic Metaphor



Carlo Scarpa and the Adoration of the Joint



Postscriptum: The Tectonic Trajectory, 1903-1994


The Owl of Minerva: An Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index