Studies in tectonic culture : the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture / Kenneth Frampton ; edited by John Cava.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frampton, Kenneth (Author)
Corporate Author: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Other Authors: Cava, John (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : reflections on the scope of the tectonic
  • Greco-Gothic and Neo-Gothic : the Anglo-French origins of tectonic form
  • The rise of the tectonic : core form and art form in the German enlightenment, 1750-1870
  • Frank Lloyd Wright and the text-tile tectonic
  • Auguste Perret and classical rationalism
  • Mies van der Rohne : avant-garde and continuity
  • Louis Kahn : modernization and the new monumentality, 1944-1972
  • Jørn Utzon : transcultural form and the tectonic metaphor
  • Carlo Scarpa and the adoratiaon of the joint
  • Postscriptum : the tectonic trajectory, 1903-1994
  • The owl of Minverva : an epilogue.
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