Gevork Hartoonian

Reading Kenneth Frampton

A Commentary on 'Modern Architecture', 1980

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Frampton's historiography of modern architecture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781839986376
• ISBN-10: 1839986379
• Artikelnr.: 68933866

Autorenporträt

Gevork Hartoonian is Professor Emeritus of Architecture, University of Canberra, Australia. He is the editor of The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate, (Routledge, forthcoming) and the author of Time, History and Architecture (Routledge 2018), and Ontology of Construction (Cambridge University Press, 1994), among other volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Chapter 1: The Violence of Quotation
Chapter 2: A Trilogy
Chapter 3: The Vicissitudes of a Critical History
Chapter 4: In Defence of Architecture
Chapter 5: The Agency of Critical
Chapter 6: Aalto Contra Mies: A Conundrum?
Chapter 7: From Critical to Resistance
Postscript.