Studies in tectonic culture : the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture

Studies in tectonic culture : the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture /

Composed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book's analytical framework rests on Frampton's close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the presen...

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Main Author: Frampton, Kenneth
Corporate Author: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Other Authors: Cava, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 1995.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Symbolism in architecture.
Architecture, Modern > 19th century.
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Semiotics and architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
Sémiotique et architecture.
Architecture > 19e siècle.
Architecture > 20e siècle.
Architecture > 19e siècle > Dessins et plans.
Architecture > 20e siècle > Dessins et plans.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Bouwconstructies.
Bouwstijlen.
Bouwkunst.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Harry Francis Mallgrave
  • 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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