Kenneth Frampton

A Genealogy of Modern Architecture

Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form

A Genealogy of Modern Architecture is a reference work on modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton, one of today’s leading architectural theorists and professor for architecture at Columbia University in New York. It compiles some sixteen comparative analyses of canonical modern buildings ranging from exhibition pavilions and private houses to office buildings and various kinds of public institutions.

The buildings are compared in terms of their hierarchical spatial order, circulation structure and referential details. The analyses are organized so as to show what is similar and different between two paired types, thus revealing how modern tradition has been diversely inflected.

Richly illustrated, A Genealogy of Modern Architecture is a new standard work in architectural education, tracing the development of twentieth-century architecture from 1924 to 2000.

A Genealogy of Modern Architecture is a reference work on modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton, one of today’s leading architectural theorists and professor for architecture at Columbia University in New York. It compiles some sixteen comparative analyses of canonical modern buildings ranging from exhibition pavilions and private houses to office buildings and various kinds of public institutions.

The buildings are compared in terms of their hierarchical spatial order, circulation structure and referential details. The analyses are organized so as to show what is similar and different between two paired types, thus revealing how modern tradition has been diversely inflected.

Richly illustrated, A Genealogy of Modern Architecture is a new standard work in architectural education, tracing the development of twentieth-century architecture from 1924 to 2000.

Author(s): Kenneth Frampton

Edited by Ashley Simone

24 × 17.3 cm, 9 ½ × 6 ¾ in

304 pages, 692 illustrations

hardback

2015, 978-3-03778-369-6, English
CHF 40.00
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Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton, born 1930, is one of the world’s most renowned architectural theorists, the author of the world best seller Modern Architecture: A Critical History, and a professor at Columbia University, New York.

Ashley Simone

ASHLEY SIMONE is a New York City–based editor, photographer, and professor of architecture at Pratt Institute. The intersection of art, culture, and the built environment is the focus of her practice that draws on her training as an architect at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her photography has been exhibited in New York and London and featured in journals and magazines that include Architectural Design and Interior Design. She is the editor of A Genealogy of Modern Architecture:
Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (Lars Müller, 2015) and Absurd Thinking Between Art and Design (Lars Müller, 2017).