Title:
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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9780262061735
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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
Foreword | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
1 Introduction: Reflections on the Scope of the Tectonic | p. 1 |
2 Greco-Gothic and Neo-Gothic: The Anglo-French Origins of Tectonic Form | p. 29 |
3 The Rise of the Tectonic: Core Form and Art Form in the German Enlightenment, 1750-1870 | p. 61 |
4 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Text-Tile Tectonic | p. 93 |
5 Auguste Perret and Classical Rationalism | p. 121 |
6 Mies van der Rohe: Avant-Garde and Continuity | p. 159 |
7 Louis Kahn: Modernization and the New Monumentality, 1944-1972 | p. 209 |
8 Jorn Utzon: Transcultural Form and the Tectonic Metaphor | p. 247 |
9 Carlo Scarpa and the Adoration of the Joint | p. 299 |
10 Postscriptum: The Tectonic Trajectory, 1903-1994 | p. 335 |
The Owl of Minerva: An Epilogue | p. 377 |
Notes | p. 389 |
Bibliography | p. 413 |
Illustration Credits | p. 423 |
Index | p. 425 |