Modern architecture A critical history

Kenneth Frampton

Book - 2007

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Published
London ; New York : Thames & Hudson 2007.
Language
English
Main Author
Kenneth Frampton (-)
Edition
4th ed
Physical Description
424 p. : ill., plans ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-412) and index.
ISBN
9780500203958
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Cultural developments and predisposing techniques 1750-1939
  • 1. Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical architecture 1750-1900
  • 2. Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800-1909
  • 3. Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775-1939
  • Part II. A critical history 1836-1967
  • 1. News from Nowhere: England 1836-1924
  • 2. Adler and Sullivan: the Auditorium and the high rise 1886-95
  • 3. Frank Lloyd Wright and the myth of the Prairie 1890-1916
  • 4. Structural Rationalism and the influence of Viollet-le-Duc: Gaudi, Horta, Guimard and Berlage 1880-1910
  • 5. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School 1896-1916
  • 6. The Sacred Spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffmann 1886-1912
  • 7. Antonio Sant'Elia and Futurist architecture 1909-14
  • 8. Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896-1931
  • 9. Henry van de Velde and the abstraction of empathy 1895-1914
  • 10. Tony Garnier and the Industrial City 1899-1918
  • 11. Auguste Perret: the evolution of Classical Rationalism 1899-1925
  • 12. The Deutsche Werkbund 1898-1927
  • 13. The Glass Chain: European architectural Expressionism 1910-25
  • 14. The Bauhaus: the evolution of an idea 1919-32
  • 15. The New Objectivity: Germany, Holland and Switzerland 1923-33
  • 16. De Stijl: the evolution and dissolution of Neo-Plasticism 1917-31
  • 17. Le Corbusier and the Esprit Nouveau 1907-31
  • 18. Mies van der Rohe and the significance of fact 1921-33
  • 19. The New Collectivity: art and architecture in the Soviet Union 1918-32
  • 20. Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse 1928-46
  • 21. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Disappearing City 1929-63
  • 22. Alvar Aalto and the Nordic tradition: National Romanticism and the Doricist sensibility 1895-1957
  • 23. Giuseppe Terragni and the architecture of Italian Rationalism 1926-43
  • 24. Architecture and the State: ideology and representation 1914-43
  • 25. Le Corbusier and the monumentalization of the vernacular 1930-60
  • 26. Mies van der Rohe and the monumentalization of technique 1933-67
  • 27. The Eclipse of the New Deal: Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn 1934-64
  • Part III. Critical assessment and extension into the present 1925-91
  • 1. The International Style: theme and variations 1925-65
  • 2. New Brutalism and the architecture of the Welfare State: England 1949-59
  • 3. The vicissitudes of ideology: CIAM and Team X, critique and counter-critique 1928-68
  • 4. Place, Production and Scenography: international theory and practice since 1962
  • 5. Critical Regionalism: modern architecture and cultural identity
  • 6. World architecture and reflective practice
  • 7. Architecture in the Age of Globalization: topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality, habitat and civic form 1975-2007
  • Select Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
Review by Choice Review

The fifth edition of Frampton's Modern Architecture has been substantially expanded since the 2007 edition: 311 pages have been added and the book comprises four parts (rather than three) and 41 chapters (up from 37). Parts 1 and 2 cover Western architectural history from 1750 to the 1960s. In the new edition, the former third part becomes two parts--"Critical Transformations, 1925--90" and "World Architecture and the Modern Movement." The latter includes chapters dedicated to the impact of the modern movement across all of the world's principal geographical regions (Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe), with individual chapters on each country (the Soviet Union is conspicuously absent). Teeming with Frampton's keen critical insights and including 813 illustrations and 22 pages of bibliography, this will be an indispensable resource for the study of modern architecture well into the future. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. --Jack Quinan, emeritus, independent scholar

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