Studies in tectonic culture : the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture / Kenneth Frampton ; edited by John Cava.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262061732
- 9780262061735
- 724.5
- NA642. F72 1995
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"Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois.".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-420) and index.
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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