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Modern Architecture: A Critical History
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Kenneth Frampton
"One of the most important works on modern architecture we have today."--"Architectural Design" "A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural scholarship, this ambitious publication contains many chapters that stand on their own as perceptive essays; it is marked throughout by a consistently mature critical intelligence."--"New York ...
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American Masterworks: The Twentieth Century House
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Kenneth Frampton, David Larkin
This stunning volume presents America's finest masterpieces of modern residential architecture, featuring 34 houses by such luminaries as Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Michael Graves. Frampton explores each house in depth, discussing its place in the progression of American architecture, its role in the architect's oeuvre, and its ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses
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Alan Weintraub (Photographer), Kenneth Frampton, Thomas S Hines
For the first time, all 289 extant houses designed by the master architect are shown here in exquisite color photographs. Along with Weintraub's stunning photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several leading Wright scholars.
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Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture
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Kenneth Frampton, Dr. Harry Francis Mallgrave (Foreword by)
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.
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Le Corbusier
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Kenneth Frampton
Le Corbusier's life and works are chronicled in this book by architectural historian Kenneth Frampton.
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Coll Writings V 3fl Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Editor), Kenneth Frampton (Introduction by)
Included among Wright's complete books and articles reproduced here are 'The Disappearing City, ' covering the problem of urban density; his famous prophetic solutions for more livable metropolises; his concise, powerful agenda for American architecture, 'An Organic Architecture'; and his writings on the creation of his school, the Taliesin ...
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Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World
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Peter Buchanan, Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by)
A compelling manifesto using ten buildings to illustrate how environmental responsibility promises to reinvigorate contemporary architecture. Contemporary buildings, like contemporary forms of urban development, are major contributors to the environmental crisis. In this book documenting a major traveling exhibition organized by the Architectural ...
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Steven Holl Architect
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Harwell Hamilton Harris
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Lisa Germany, Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by), Bruno Zevi (Introduction by)
An engaging, definitive treatment of the life and work of a successful California architect of the mid-twentieth century whose designs achieved a pleasing blend of vernacular and modernist values.
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Richard Meier, Architect Volume 3
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Richard Meier (Preface by), Kenneth Frampton, Joseph Rykwert
The third volume in Rizzoli's bestselling Richard Meier monograph series presents 24 of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's post-1985 works, including a selection of those currently in design, and furniture and decorative objects. 350 illustrations, 150 in color.
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Tadao Ando
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Richard Meier
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Architecture on Architecture
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Platt Byard Dovell White, Kenneth Frampton (Introduction by)
Individually and in partnership, as architects, educators, and advocates, the four principals of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects have made an indelible impression on the contemporary and historic architecture of New York City and beyond. In projects that range from historic preservation--the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center in Central Park and ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Terence Riley, Kenneth Frampton, William Cronon
From the turn of the century until his death in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright produced projects that defined and redefined the American architectural vision. This book, accompanying a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is the most comprehensive appraisal of his achievements ever assembled. 466 illustrations, 190 in full color.
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Hariri & Hariri: Work in Progress
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Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl, Oscar Riera Ojeda (Compiled by)
Hariri & Hariri exemplifies the spirit of the emerging generation of architects. Gisue Hariri and Mojgan Hariri, Iranian-born, Cornell-educated sisters, opened their New York City practice in 1986. At that time, writes esteemed architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, their work "first broke upon the New York scene, with the publication of a ...
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Karel Teige: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde
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Erich Dluhosch (Editor), Rostislav Svacha (Editor), Kenneth Frampton (Introduction by)
Karel Teige (1900-1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and international cultural affairs and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and ...
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Nikken Sekkei: Building Future Japan, 1900-2000
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Botond Bognar, Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by)
As the oldest and largest design firm in Japan, Nikken Sekkei employs over two thousand people and boasts of over fourteen thousand completed projects in forty countries. This volume examines their finest displays of architectural refinement, elegance, and bravura from 1990 to the present. Botond Bognar, Professor of Architecture at the University ...
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Coll Writings V 4fl Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Editor), Kenneth Frampton (Introduction by)
The famed architect shares his thoughts on Beethoven, genius, and the human spirit. "Space, motion, and gravitation are (the architect's) palette: the sun his brush. His concern is the heart of humanity. He, of all men, must see into the life of things; know their honor".--Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Technology and Place: Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm
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Steven A Moore, Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by)
"I consider this book the most insightful discussion of place and technology I have encountered over the past twenty years of thinking about place and its role in modern society.... I think that it will create an intellectual stir and give a significant boost to scholarship bringing together social science and the design professions." -- John ...
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Robert Marino
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Oscar Riera Ojeda (Editor), Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by), Alvaro Malo (Introduction by)
Though much of Robert Marino's work takes the form of additions to existing houses, the stunning rhythmic structure of these addenda infuses new life and energy into the existing structures. Trained both as an architect and an engineer, Marino is a master builder with an acute sense of space and structure. His distinctive use of materials, such as ...
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Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century
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Kenneth Frampton (Text by), Roberto Schezen (Photographer)
Widely regarded as the greatest architect of the 20th century, the Swiss-born Le Corbusier (1887-1965) left an indelible mark on modern building design and city planning. Here celebrated architectural photographer Roberto Schezen joins with Columbia University architectural historian Kenneth Frampton -- one of the world's foremost experts on ...
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Essays in Architectural Criticism: Modern Architecture and Historical Change
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Alan Colquboun, Alan Colquhoun, Kenneth Frampton (Designer)
This collection of 17 of Alan Colquhoun's essays marks a watershed in the development of architectural thinking over the past three decades, comprising a virtual "theory of Modernism" in architecture.
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Patkau Architects
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The firm of Patkau Architects, founded in 1978 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has achieved international renown for work that draws on the principles of modern architecture and is simultaneously inspired by the traditions and often spectacular landscape of the Pacific Northwest. The office is known for a straightforward, multifaceted ...
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Richard Meier, Architect Vol. 3
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Richard Meier, Joseph Rykwert, Kenneth Frampton
The third volume in Rizzoli's bestselling Richard Meier monograph series presents 24 of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's post-1985 works, including those currently in design, furniture, and decorative objects. Spectacular new photography showcases the Getty Center and other recently completed projects. 250 color and 200 b&w illustrations.
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Richard Meier Architect: 2000/2004
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Richard Meier, Kenneth Frampton, Joseph Rykwert
The latest installment of Rizzoli's best-selling series of monographs on one of America's most important architects, Richard Meier, Architect Volume 4 documents Meier's work since the publication of the previous volume in 1999. This extensively illustrated presentation vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision. ...
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