World of Art - Modern Architecture

Pubblicato da Thames & Hudson, Modern Architecture offre una panoramica approfondita della tradizione dell'architettura contemporanea. Nella rinnovata quinta edizione del best seller, la storia dell'architettura moderna è ripercorsa dalle origini fino agli anni Duemila. Il libro è scritto dall'architetto e storico dell'arte Kenneth Frampton e fa parte dell'acclamata serie World of Art di Thames & Hudson.

This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition, Kenneth Frampton has added a new section that explores in detail the modernist tradition in architecture across the globe in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He examines the varied ways in which architects are not only responding to the geographical, climatic, material and cultural contexts of their buildings, but also pursuing distinct lines of approach that emphasize topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality habitat and civic form. It remains an essential book for all students of architecture and architectural history.