Abstract In connection with the publication of Kenneth Frampton’s A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form, Thomas McQuillan conducted an interview in March of 2016 with Frampton to discuss the book’s background and the implications publication has for contemporary architecture. The book consists of close comparative analyses of 28 modern buildings, two by two, in order to interrogate their spatial, constructive, envelopmental, and programmatic characteristics. Descargar manual de derecho administrativo luis cosculluela montaner de. Prefaced by a synoptic note, with a highly concentrated exposition of the history of modern architecture, and building on his reading of Arendt’s The Human Condition, the book seeks the meaning of architecture in the tectonic — the way it is built — in more than just the spaces it affords and the images that it projects. Frampton shares the history of his ideas on tectonics and the fragility of the modern project in today’s neoliberal climate.

About Kenneth Frampton Kenneth Frampton is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University and a leading voice in the history of modernist architecture. In the 1970s, he was instrumental in the development of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and a co-founding editor of its magazine Oppositions.

His essay ‘Towards a Critical Regionalism’ of 1983 was seminal in defining architectural thought throughout the 1980s, and his Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980; revised 1985, and 2007) and Studies in Tectonic Culture ( ) are cornerstones of his work.

Click on the cover image above to read some pages of this book! 'One of the most important works on modern architecture we have today.' --'Architectural Design' 'A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural scholarship, this ambitious publication contains many chapters that stand on their own as perceptive essays; it is marked throughout by a consistently mature critical intelligence.' --'New York Review of Books' This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new section that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years and examines the phenomenon of international celebrity architects who are increasingly active all over the world. The bibliography has been updated and expanded, making this volume more complete and indispensable than ever. 420 illustrations.

Introduction p. 8 Cultural developments and predisposing techniques 1750-1939 Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical architecture 1750-1900 p. 12 Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800-1909 p. 20 Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775-1939 p. 29 A critical history 1836-1967 News from Nowhere: England 1836-1924 p. 42 Adler and Sullivan: the Auditorium and the high rise 1886-95 p. 51 Frank Lloyd Wright and the myth of the Prairie 1890-1916 p.

History that separates the modern period from all that went before it.”2. Encompasses an immediate collection of individuals, perhaps a family and a few. Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture: A Critical History, 3d.

57 Structural Rationalism and the influence of Viollet-le-Duc: Gaudi, Horta, Guimard and Berlage 1880-1910 p. 64 Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School 1896-1916 p. 74 The Sacred Spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffmann 1886-1912 p. 78 Antonio Sant'Elia and Futurist architecture 1909-14 p. 84 Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896-1931 p.