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

Title:

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

Author:

Frampton, Kenneth.

Format:

Book

Institution:

MassArt

Contents:

Foreword / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- 1. Introduction: Reflections on the Scope of the Tectonic -- 2. Greco-Gothic and Neo-Gothic: The Anglo-French Origins of Tectonic Form -- 3. The Rise of the Tectonic: Core Form and Art Form in the German Enlightenment, 1975-1870 -- 4. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Text-Tile Tectonic -- 5. Auguste Perret and Classical Rationalism -- 6. Mies van der Rohe: Avant-Garde and Continuity -- 7. Louis Kahn: Modernization and the New Monumentality, 1944-1972 -- 8. Jorn Utzon: Transcultural Form and the Tectonic Metaphor -- 9. Carlo Scarpa and the Adoration of the Joint -- 10. Postscriptum: The Tectonic Trajectory, 1903-1994 -- The Owl of Minerva: An Epilogue.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

MassArt Main
NA642 .F72 1995 – Available