The Isms Of Architecture.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Frampton, Kenneth, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (32 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1982.

Summary:

Peripatetic Ken Frampton, best known for his lectures and scholarly writing, is the author of "Modern architecture: a critical history" (Thames & Hudson, 1980). Trained as an architect at the AA School, London, he is Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, New York, a Fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, and a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and various other universities. In his talk, he categorises architecture today under five isms: "productivism, rationalism, structuralism, populism, and regionalism". He does this, not only to put some order into the confusion of the present situation, but as a way of suggesting what might prove to be the most fertile method for continuing with architectural culture in the future. He thinks that productivism and populism, abundantly evident, and the spontaneous building production of our time, are somewhat incapable of significant elaboration. But rationalism and structuralism, though not extensively realised, are capable of constituting the basis of a critical regionalism open to endless creative development as the fundamental principle of architectural form.

Contents:

Kenneth Frampton

Willis Faber Building, Ipswich, England, By Foster Associates

Centre Pompidou, Paris, By Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers

Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, By César Pelli

La Roca Housing Near Milan, By Aldo Rossi & Giorgio Grassi

Student Dormitory In Chieti, Italy, By Giorgio Grassi, Antonio Monestiroli & Raffaele Conti

Arcaded Street

Aerial Perspective Of Echternach, Luxembourg, 1970, By Leon Krier

UNESCO Campus Proposal For Luxembourg, By Leon Krier

Competition Design For Zurich Railway Terminus, By Mario Botta & Luigi Snozzi

Casa Bianchi, Riva San Vitale, 1973, By Mario Botta

Orphanage, Amsterdam, 1958, By Aldo Van Eyck

Centraal Beheer Offices, Apeldoorn, By Herman Hertzberger

City Edges Study For The Schuylkill River Corridor, 1974, By Robert Venturi & John Rauch

Piazza d'ltalia, New Orleans, 1979, By Charles Moore

House For Matthews Street, San Francisco, By Thomas Gordon Smith

Bagsvaerd Church Near Copenhagen, 1976, By Jörn Utzon

Beires House, Portugal, 1976, By Alvaro Siza

Karl Marx Hof, Vienna, 1927, By Karl Ehn.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 22, 2021).

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