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

By: Frampton, Kenneth.
Contributor(s): Cava, John | Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995Description: xi, 430 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0262561492 (pbk.).Subject(s): Symbolism in architecture | Architecture, Modern -- 19th century | Architecture, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 724.5
Contents:
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, 1750-1870 - Frank Lloyd Wright and the text-tile tectonic - 5. Auguste Perret and classical retionalism - 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. Postcriptum: the tectonic trajectory, 1903-1994 - The owl of minerva: an epilogue - Notes - Bibliography - Illustration credits - Index.
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"Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-420) and index.

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, 1750-1870 - Frank Lloyd Wright and the text-tile tectonic - 5. Auguste Perret and classical retionalism - 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. Postcriptum: the tectonic trajectory, 1903-1994 - The owl of minerva: an epilogue - Notes - Bibliography - Illustration credits - Index.