Main entry:

Frampton, Kenneth, author.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture : a critical history / Kenneth Frampton.

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Publication:

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2020.

Description:

735 pages : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm.

Series:

World of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-694) and index.
Cultural developments and predisposing techniques 1750-1939 -- A critical history 1836-1967 -- Part III: Critical transformations 1925-90 -- Part IV: World Architecture and the Modern Movement -- Afterword: Architecture in the Age of Globalization.
Cultural developments and predisposing techniques 1750-1939 : Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical architecture 1750-1900 ; Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800-1909 ; Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775-1939 -- A critical history 1838-1967 : News from nowhere: England 1836-1924 ; Adler and Sullivan: the auditorium and the high rise 1886-95 ; Frank Lloyd Wright and myth of the prairie 1890-1916 ; Structural rationalism and the influence of Viollet-le-Duc: Gaudí, Horta, Guimard, and Berlage 1880-1910 ; Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School 1896-1916 ; The sacred spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffmann 1886-1912 ; Antonio Sant'Elia and Futurist architecture 1909-14 ; Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896-1931 ; Henry van de Velde and the abstraction of empathy 1895-1914 ; Tony Garnier and the industrial city 1899-1918 ; Auguste Perret: the evolution of classical rationalism 1899-1925 ; The Deutsche werkbund 1898-1927 ; The glass chain: European architectural Expressionism 1910-1925 ; The Bauhaus: the evolution of an idea 1919-32 ; The new objectivity: Germany, Holland, and Switzerland 1923-33 ; Modern architecture in Czechoslovakia 1918-38 ; De Stijl: the evolution and dissolution of neo-plasticism 1917-31 ; Le Corbusier and the Esprit Nouveau 1907-31 ; From Art Deco to the popular front: French architecture between two world wars 1925-1945 ; Mies van der Rohe and the significance of fact 1921-33 ; The new collectivity: art and architecture in the Soviet Union 1918-32 ; Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse 1928-46 ; Frank Lloyd Wright and the disappearing city 1929-63 ; Alvar Aalto and the Nordic tradition: national Romanticism and the Doricist sensibility 1895-1957 ; Giuseppe Terragni and the architecture of Italian rationalism 1926-43 ; Architecture and the state: ideology and representation 1914-43 ; Le Corbusier and the momentalization of the vernacular 1930-60 ; Mies van der Rohe and the momentalization of technique 1933-67 ; The eclipse of the New Deal: Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn 1934-64 -- Critical transformations: 1925-90 : The international style: theme and variations 1925-65 ; New Brutalism and the architecture of the welfare state: England 1949-59 ; The vicissitudes of ideology CIAM and Team X, critique and counter-critique 1928-68 ; Place, production and scenography: international theory and practice since 1962 ; Critical regionalism: modern architecture and cultural identity -- World architecture and the modern movement -- The Americas : Introduction ; United States ; Canada ; Mexico ; Brazil ; Colombia ; Venezuela ; Argentina ; Uruguay ; Peru ; Chile -- Africa and the Middle East : Introduction ; South Africa ; West Africa ; North Africa ; East Africa ; Turkey ; Lebanon ; Israel/Palestine ; Iraq ; Saudi Arabia ; Iran ; Gulf States -- Asia and the Pacific : Introduction ; India ; Pakistan ; Bangladesh ; Sri Lanka ; China ; Japan ; South Korea ; Australia ; New Zealand -- Europe : Introduction ; United Kingdom ; Ireland ; France ; Belgium ; Spain ; Portugal ; Italy ; Greece ; Former Yugoslavia ; Austria ; Germany ; Denmark ; Sweden ; Norway ; Finland -- Afterword: architecture in the age of globalization.

Summary:

This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition, Kenneth Frampton has added a new section that explores in detail the modernist tradition in architecture across the globe in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He examines the varied ways in which architects are not only responding to the geographical, climatic, material and cultural contexts of their buildings, but also pursuing distinct lines of approach that emphasize topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality habitat and civic form. It remains an essential book for all students of architecture and architectural history.

ISBN:

9780500204443 (paperback)
0500204446

Subject:

Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

World of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308995
Call No.: BIB 254306
Status: Available