Architecture and the Public World / Kenneth Frampton; Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Notes -- Kenneth Frampton: A Biographical Sketch -- Introduction -- Kenneth Frampton in Conversation with Miodrag Mitrašinovic ́ -- The Human Condition and the Critical Present -- 1 Introduction to Section 1 -- 2 The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human Condition -- 3 Industrialization and the Crises in Architecture -- 4 Apropos Ulm: Curriculum and Critical Theory -- 5 Modern Architecture: A Critical History , Introduction to the 1st Edition

6 Towards an Ontological Architecture: A Philosophical Excursus -- Urban Landscape and the Eclipse of the Public Realm -- 7 Introduction to Section 2 -- 8 America 1960-1970: Notes on Urban Images and Theory -- 9 The Generic Street as a Continuous Built Form -- 10 Technology, Place & Architecture -- 11 Civic Form -- 12 The Legacy of Alvar Aalto: Evolution and Influence -- 13 Toward an Urban Landscape -- 14 Megaform as Urban Landscape -- 15 Land Settlement, Architecture, and the Eclipse of the Public Realm -- Cross-Cultural Trajectories, Place Creation, and the Politics of Counter Form

16 Introduction to Section 3 -- 17 On Reading Heidegger -- 18 Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance -- 19 Tadao Ando's Critical Modernism -- 20 Place-Form and Cultural Identity -- 21 Modernization and Local Culture -- 22 The Predicament of the Place-Form: Notes from New York -- 23 Plan Form and Topography in the Work of Kashef Chowdhury -- 24 2018 Society of Architectural Historians Plenary Talk -- The Predicament of Architecture in the New Millennium -- 25 Introduction to Section 4 -- 26 Architecture, Philosophy, and the Education of Architects

27 Reflections on the Autonomy of Architecture: A Critique of Contemporary Production -- 28 Seven Points for the Millennium: An Untimely Manifesto -- 29 Typology and Participation: The Architecture of Álvaro Siza -- 30 Towards an Agonistic Architecture -- 31 The Unfinished Project at the End of Modernity: Tectonic Form and the Space of Public Appearance -- Afterword: "The Criticism of Architecture is Worth More Than Architecture," by Clive Dilnot -- Bibliographic Sources -- Biographies -- Index

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.

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