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Studies in tectonic culture : the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture
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London : MIT Press, 1995
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Summary

Summary

This is Kenneth Frampton's follow-up to his A Critical History of Modern Architecture.


Author Notes

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


Table of Contents

Harry Francis Mallgrave
Forewordp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
1 Introduction: Reflections on the Scope of the Tectonicp. 1
2 Greco-Gothic and Neo-Gothic: The Anglo-French Origins of Tectonic Formp. 29
3 The Rise of the Tectonic: Core Form and Art Form in the German Enlightenment, 1750-1870p. 61
4 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Text-Tile Tectonicp. 93
5 Auguste Perret and Classical Rationalismp. 121
6 Mies van der Rohe: Avant-Garde and Continuityp. 159
7 Louis Kahn: Modernization and the New Monumentality, 1944-1972p. 209
8 Jorn Utzon: Transcultural Form and the Tectonic Metaphorp. 247
9 Carlo Scarpa and the Adoration of the Jointp. 299
10 Postscriptum: The Tectonic Trajectory, 1903-1994p. 335
The Owl of Minerva: An Epiloguep. 377
Notesp. 389
Bibliographyp. 413
Illustration Creditsp. 423
Indexp. 425