Kenneth Frampton

Architecture and the Public World (eBook, ePUB)

Kenneth Frampton
Redaktion: Mitrasinovic, Miodrag

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical-theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the "predicament" of architecture in the new Millennium.
The essays explore Frampton's contention that architecture's imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian 'public world.' One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Frampton's work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architecture's 'unfinished project,' while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350183803
• Artikelnr.: 69828910

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of, amongst other works, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980: 4th edition 2007; 5th edition in preparation), Modern Architecture in the World of Art series (5th edition, 2020); Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction (1995), Labor, Work and Architecture (2002), A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015) and The Other Modernism (2016: in Italian).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Editorial Notes List of Figures Kenneth Frampton: A Brief
Biographical Sketch Introduction, Miodrag Mitrasinovic (Parsons School of
Design, The New School, USA) Kenneth Frampton in Conversation with Miodrag
Mitrasinovic (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) SECTION ONE:
The Human Condition and the Critical Present Introduction to Section One
The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human
Condition Industrialization and the Crises in Architecture Apropos Ulm:
Curriculum and Critical Theory Modern Architecture: A Critical History,
Introduction to the 1st Edition Towards an Ontological Architecture: A
Philosophical Excursus SECTION TWO: Urban Landscape and the Eclipse of the
Public Realm Introduction to Section Two America 1960-1970: Notes on Urban
Images and Theory The Generic Street as a Continuous Built Form Technology,
Place, and Architecture Civic Form The Legacy of Alvar Aalto: Evolution and
Influence Toward an Urban Landscape Megaform as Urban Landscape Land
Settlement, Architecture, and the Eclipse of the Public Realm SECTION
THREE: Cross-Cultural Trajectories, Place Creation, and the Politics of
Counter Form Introduction to Section Three On Reading Heidegger Towards a
Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance Tadao
Ando's Critical Modernism Place-Form and Cultural Identity Modernization
and Local Culture The Predicament of the Place-Form: Notes from New York
Plan Form and Topography in the Work of Kashef Chowdhury Society of
Architectural Historians Plenary Talk SECTION FOUR: The Predicament of
Architecture in the New Millennium Introduction to Section Four
Architecture, Philosophy, and the Education of Architects Reflections on
the Autonomy of Architecture: A Critique of Contemporary Production Seven
Points for the Millennium: An Untimely Manifesto Typology and
Participation: The Architecture of Álvaro Siza Towards an Agonistic
Architecture The Unfinished Project at the End of Modernity: Tectonic Form
and the Space of Public Appearance Afterword: "The Criticism of
Architecture is Worth More Than Architecture," by Clive Dilnot
Bibliographic Sources Biographies