Modern Architecture And The Lifeworld

Author : Karla Cavarra Britton
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500343632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld written by Karla Cavarra Britton and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated volume of essays by prominent historians, scholars, and practitioners in architecture today honors the vast and international scope of Kenneth Frampton’s seminal contributions to the field of contemporary architectural practice and its history. The evolution of modern architecture has been inextricably entangled in issues of politics, nationalism, and the environment, creating a tension between local context and global development that is unresolved to this day. In this context, few writers have exerted as much influence on architectural theory and practice as Kenneth Frampton. In this illustrated volume, twenty-nine contributors from around the world amplify and pay tribute to his writing and thought. Intended for all those concerned with the built environment, this book offers further evidence of how this scholar, humanist, and teacher has shaped our understanding of the working reality of the architect. The premise of Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld is rooted in Frampton’s understanding of how architecture must engage with both cultural and constructional imperatives; and it addresses strategies for grappling with contemporary concerns such as regional identity amidst urban globalization, and tectonic culture and landform in the construction of place. Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Table of Contents Introduction, Karla Cavarra Britton and Robert McCarter PART I: The Social, Cultural, and Ecological Nature of Architecture • Kenneth Frampton’s Idea of the “Critical”, Mary McLeod • World Architecture and Critical Practice, Wang Shu • Site-Specificity, Skilled Labor, and Culture: Architectural Principles in the Age of Climate Change, Wilfried Wang • That Pesky Paradisiacal Instinct …, Harry Francis Mallgrave • Paradoxes of Progress, Joan Ockman • Engaging the Lifeworld in Architectural Design: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Alberto Pérez-Gómez PART II: Histories and Pedagogies of Architecture • Kenneth Frampton’s Elusive Constructivism, Jean-Louis Cohen • Editing History: the Bauhaus at MoMA, 1938, Barry Bergdoll • Frampton and Japan, Ken Tadashi Oshima • Dialectics of Utopia/Utopian Dialectics, Anthony Vidler • Frampton: Apropos Housing and Cities, Richard Plunz • Proportion and Harmony: Mathematics and Music in Architecture, Juhani Pallasmaa • Mannerism Matters, Robert Maxwell • The Birth of Architecture from the Spirit of Conversation, Kurt W. Forster • On Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Rafael Moneo • A Time of Heroics: Paul Rudolph and Yale, 1958–1965, Robert A.M. Stern with Leopoldo Villardi PART III: Operational Criticism, Landform, and Tectonic Presence • On Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl • An Englishman in New York, Wiel Arets • From the Field: Critical Regionalism and Tectonic Culture Applied, Brad Cloepfil • Architectural Osmosis, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara • Public Natures: A Roundtable Discussion, Kenneth Frampton, Marion Weiss, Michael A. Manfredi with Justin Fowler • Architecture and Nature: A Recurring State of Mind, Emilio Ambasz • Value and the Metaphor of Phenomenology in the “Visual Schemes” of Kenneth Frampton, Ashley Simone • From the Archives of Kenneth Frampton, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe • Biography of Kenneth Frampton • Biographies of Contributors • Index

Author : David Seamon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317504771
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geography of the Lifeworld (Routledge Revivals) written by David Seamon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the modern Western lifestyle increasing conflict is becoming apparent between that patchwork of isolated points such as the home or the office, which are linked by a mechanical system of transportation and communication devices, and a growing sense of homelessness and isolation. This work, first published in 1979, adopts a phenomenological perspective illustrating that this malaise may have partial roots in the deepening rupture between people and place. Whereas the problems of terrestrial space may have been overcome technologically and economically, it has been less successful regarding people. Experience indicates that people become bound to locality, and the quality of their life is thus reduced if these bonds are disrupted or broken in any way. The relationship between community and place is investigated, as is the opportunity for improving the environment, both from a human and an ecological perspective. This book will be of interest to students of human geography.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300238894
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Modern Movement written by Kenneth Frampton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness Usually associated with Mies and Le Corbusier, the Modern Movement was instrumental in advancing new technologies of construction in architecture, including the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete. Renowned historian Kenneth Frampton offers a bold look at this crucial period, focusing on architects less commonly associated with the movement in order to reveal the breadth and complexity of architectural modernism. The Other Modern Movement profiles nineteen architects, each of whom consciously contributed to the evolution of a new architectural typology through a key work realized between 1922 and 1962. Frampton's account offers new insights into iconic buildings like Eileen Gray's E-1027 House in France and Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California, as well as lesser-known works such as Antonin Raymond's Tokyo Golf Club and Alejandro de la Sota's Maravillas School Gymnasium in Madrid. Foregrounding the ways that these diverse projects employed progressive models, advanced new methods in construction techniques, and displayed a new sociocultural awareness, Frampton shines a light on the rich legacy of the Modern Movement and the enduring potential of the unfinished modernist project.

Author : Gavin Macrae-Gibson
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262631181
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Buildings written by Gavin Macrae-Gibson and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since the 1920s has American architecture undergone such fundamental changes asthose which are revitalizing the profession today. But in this period of great artistic fertilityand unrest, there has yet to emerge a critical theory capable of analyzing the conditions andexamining the attitudes by which our architecture is being redefined.Gavin Macrae-Gibson is thefirst of a generation of architects educated in the 1970s to construct a method of criticismpowerful enough to interpret this new architecture. The theory is built upon a close reading ofseven works, all completed in the 1980s: Frank Gehry's Gehry House in Santa Monica, Peter Eisenman'sHouse El Even Odd, Cesar Pelli's Four Leaf Towers in Houston, Michael Graves' Portland PublicService building, Robert Stern's Bozzi residence in East Hampton, Allan Greenberg's ManchesterSuperior Courthouse in Connecticut, and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown's Gordon Wu Hall atPrinceton.The author uses urban plans, and architectural drawings and photographs to reveal thelayers of meaning present in each building, including the deepest layer-its secret life. At thislevel the buildings have in common the fact that their meaning is derived from the realities of animperfect present and no longer from the anticipation of a utopian future.Gavin Macrae-Gibson is apracticing architect. He has been Visiting Lecturer in Architectural Theory at Yale University since1982, and has taught and lectured widely throughout the United States and Canada. A GrahamFoundation Book.The Graham Foundation Architecture Series Two decades ago, the Graham Foundation forAdvanced Study in the Fine Arts published Robert Venturi's epoch-making Complexity and Contradictionin Architecture in association with the Museum of Modern Art. Now the foundation is renewing itscommitment to architectural literature by announcing the first two titles of a new series it islaunching with The MIT Press.The aim is to publish books that are of crucial importance to thetheory and practice of architecture, and that will enhance the understanding of architecture as ahumanist discipline. The series will feature original texts by contemporary architects, historians,theorists, and critics.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture and the Critical Present written by Kenneth Frampton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136640630
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture. The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in 20th-century modernist architecture including Wright, Eisenman, Mies van der Rohe and Kahn. It describes the milieu in which they practiced their art and directs readers to information on the life and creative activities of these founding architects and their disciples. The profiles of individual architects include critical analysis of their major buildings and projects. Each profile is completed by a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Peter Madsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113456774X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Lifeworld written by Peter Madsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what urban life is about. The Urban Lifeworld contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering new insight into the analysis of urban experience. Two exceptional cities, New York and Copenhagen, are the focus of this exploration of cultural representations of urban life, which investigates the contrasts between perceptions and formation of the urban lifeworld. Integrating sociological, aesthetic and anthropological approaches to urban questions, this collection of essays presents a new vision of the cityscape which will enrich both academic debate and public life.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Kenneth Frampton and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new section that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years and examines the phenomenon of international celebrity architects who are increasingly active all over the world. The bibliography has been updated and expanded, making this volume more complete and indispensable than ever.

Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691074429
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture and Other Essays written by Vincent Scully and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made. This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and observation, written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi. In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.

Author : Andres Lepik
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 0870707841
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Scale, Big Change written by Andres Lepik and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 28 Sept. 2010-3 Jan. 2011.