Name: Architecture and the Public World: Kenneth Frampton
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Author: Kenneth Frampton
ISBN: 9781350183780

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Architecture and the Public World: Kenneth Frampton

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kenneth Frampton

Illustrated by

Eduardo Staszowski

Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Publisher

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x15.6x2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781350183780

Synopsis "Architecture and the Public World: Kenneth Frampton"

This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical-theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the "predicament" of architecture in the new Millennium. The essays explore Frampton's contention that architecture's imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian 'public world.' One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Frampton's work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architecture's 'unfinished project, ' while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.

Kenneth Frampton

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Kenneth Frampton (1930) studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and has been a professor at universities around the world. Author of numerous books and essays on the history and theory of architecture, among them is his famous Critical History of Modern Architecture (1980), as well as his more recent Studies on Tectonic Culture (1995) and the collection of essays Labour, Work and Architecture (2002). In 2018, he was awarded for his professional career with the Golden Lion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale.

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