Studies in tectonic culture : the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture /
By: Frampton, Kenneth
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Contributor(s): Cava, John
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995Description: xi, 430 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0262561492; 9780262561495:.Subject(s): Symbolism in architecture![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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 present.