Modern Architecture: A Critical History. World of Art Series.
by Kenneth Frampton
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0500202575
- ISBN 13
- 9780500202579
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Kenneth Brian Frampton CBE (born 20 November 1930) is a British architect, critic and historian. He is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. He has been a permanent resident of the United States since the mid-1980s. Frampton is regarded as one of the world's leading historians of modernist architecture.
In his book "Modern Architecture: A Critical History", Kenneth Frampton states that critical regionalism must be intended as a fringe activity that on the one hand is critical towards modernization, but on the other hand refuses to abandon the emancipatory and progressive aspects of the legacy of modern architecture. Moreover, Critical regionalism promotes the creation of architecture as a tectonic event rather than reducing the built environment to a series of badly arranged scenographic events. Critical regionalism has got a local nature in so far as it inevitably emphasizes certain factors that are specific to a site, starting from topographics, which is considered a three-dimensional mould into which the structure is inserted in order to obtain the changing play of the light of the location through the very same structure.
This book, contains an extensive bibliographic list as well as the index of references. Printed on high quality thick glaze paper.
The covers of this book have been laminated by means of a transparent film.
Owner's name, neatly written once on the inside.
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In his book "Modern Architecture: A Critical History", Kenneth Frampton states that critical regionalism must be intended as a fringe activity that on the one hand is critical towards modernization, but on the other hand refuses to abandon the emancipatory and progressive aspects of the legacy of modern architecture. Moreover, Critical regionalism promotes the creation of architecture as a tectonic event rather than reducing the built environment to a series of badly arranged scenographic events. Critical regionalism has got a local nature in so far as it inevitably emphasizes certain factors that are specific to a site, starting from topographics, which is considered a three-dimensional mould into which the structure is inserted in order to obtain the changing play of the light of the location through the very same structure.
This book, contains an extensive bibliographic list as well as the index of references. Printed on high quality thick glaze paper.
The covers of this book have been laminated by means of a transparent film.
Owner's name, neatly written once on the inside.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The costs for shipping reflected on this page are purely referential.
If you want to know the actual shipping cost to your country (which can be higher or lower), please feel free to ask.
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- Bookseller
- LibrosMax (VE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50
- Title
- Modern Architecture
- Author
- Kenneth Frampton
- Illustrator
- Contains 362 B&W illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Perfectly strong and firm gummed binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Does not apply
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition (1992): Revised and Enlarged.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0500202575
- ISBN 13
- 9780500202579
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1994 Reprint
- Pages
- 376
- Size
- 15 X 21 cms.
- Keywords
- Architecture, History of Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture (Arquitectura);
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