Reading Kenneth Frampton - A Commentary on ''Modern Architecture'', 1980

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gevork Hartoonian, Hartoonian Gevork
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781839986376
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-637-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; HISTORY / Historiography, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Architecture, Individual architects and architectural firms, Theory of architecture, Contemplating Frampton's book