Reading Kenneth Frampton : a commentary on Modern architecture, 1980 / Gevork Hartoonian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartoonian, Gevork, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frampton, Kenneth.

Architecture, Modern--Historiography.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2022.

Summary:

This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton's <i>Modern Architecture: A Critical History</i>, 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. It explores selected themes in line with Frampton's many-faceted contribution, certain aspects of which can be noted between the lines of his ongoing criticism of the present-day architecture, which inevitably lead us to a critical understanding of the past, the modernity of architecture's contemporaneity. <br><br>The compiled chapters attempt to open a window onto the constellation of themes that allowed Frampton to hold on to his anteroom view of history even amidst the flow of time and flood of temporalities spanning 1980-2020. The book elucidates how Frampton's critical presentation of the history of modern movement architecture and the book's classificatory mode contribute to our understanding of the contemporaneity of architecture today.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

Chapter 1 The Violence of Quotation

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

Chapter 2 A Trilogy

I: 1750-1900

II: 1800-1909

III: 1775-1939

Chapter 3 The Vicissitudes of a Critical History

Opening

Architecture and Ideology

Criticism: Traditions of Modernism

Historical Hinge

Theorizations!

Chapter 4 In Defense of Architecture

Monumentality

Monumentalization

Addendum

Chapter 5 The Agency of the Critical

Preamble

Chapter 6 Aalto Contra Mies: A Conundrum?

Overture

Rhetoric!

Humanism Humanized!

Chapter 7 From the Critical to Resistance

1. Culture and Civilization

2. The Rise and Fall of the Avant-Garde

3. Critical Regionalism and World Culture

4. The Resistance of the Place-Form

5. Culture versus Nature: Topography, Context, Climate, Light and Tectonic Form

6. The Visual versus the Tactile

Postscript

Inflation: World Architecture

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Hartoonian, Gevork Reading Kenneth Frampton

ISBN:

9781839983504

1839983507

9781839983511

1839983515

OCLC:

1511479543