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Architecture and the Public World

Kenneth Frampton
Brief Description
This book brings together Kenneth Frampton’s essays from the 1960s to today, which epitomise 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.... Read More
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This book brings together Kenneth Frampton’s essays from the 1960s to today, which epitomise 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.’

Architecture and the Public World offers abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.

Series: Radical Thinkers in Design

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350183780

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 77 bw illus

Contributors:

  • Edited by Miodrag Mitrašinovic

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 640g

Pages: 400

About the Author

Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of, amongst other works, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980: 4th edition, 2007; 5th edition in preparation), Modern Architecture in the World of Art series (5th edition, 2020), Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction (1995), Labor, Work and Architecture (2002), A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015) and The Other Modernism (2016: in Italian).

Miodrag Mitrašinovic is Professor of Urbanism and Architecture, and Co-Chair of Parsons Graduate Urban Programs, at Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA. He is the co-editor of Public Space Reader (2020), Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion: Contemporary Urban Practices and Design Strategies of the Greater Bay Area (forthcoming 2021), 'Cooperative Cities' (Journal of Design Strategies Vol. 8, 2018), editor of Concurrent Urbanities: Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion (2016), co-editor of Travel, Space, Architecture (2009), and author of Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space (2006).

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