- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy The Diamond Jubilee A Classical Celebration Album for just £2.50 Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
| ||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £5.10
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Labour, Work and Architecture for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £5.10, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
This is an anthology of writings by the architectural critic Kenneth Frampton. It brings together 25 essays and writings from the 1970s to 2001, which focus on 20th-century architecture, dealing with themes and movements in architecture, built works and the architects responsible for these buildings. The essay subjects range from Russian Constructivism to the Case Study houses of West-Coast America. A number of individual architects and buildings are also explored, such as Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Louis Kahn, Hans Scharoun's Philarmonie in Berlin, the Leicester Engineering Building by Stirling, Kahn and Gowen, the Ford Foundation Headquarters by Roche and Dinkeloo Associates, and contemporary Swiss architectural practices.
About the Author
Kenneth Frampton is a world-respected architectural critic who holds the Ware Professorship in Architecture at Columbia University, New York. He lectures extensively in the USA and Europe, inlcuding at the ETH in Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the Royal College of Art in London and, most recently, at the Architecture Academy of the Swiss-Italian University, Mendrisio, Switzerland. He has also written, edited and contributed to a great number of publications on twentieth-century architecture. He is the author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History (published by Thames & Hudson in their World of Art series, revised edition 1992) and Studies in Tectonic Culture (MIT Press, 1997). Author's Residence: New York City
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
1 review
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Labour, Work and Architecture
23 Oct 2002
Format:Hardcover
An accurate title, for it is laborious work to extract the nuggets of wisdom from Frampton's dense prose. However, the result justifies the effort, for the Columbia professor has an intelligent opinion on almost every modern building and movement. This anthology of essays, written over the past 35 years, ranges from Russian Constructivism, through evaluations of Aalto, Kahn, and Le Corbusier, to reviews of the Berlin Philharmonie, the Leicester Engineering Building and the Ford Foundation Headquarters - which he excoriates as "A House of Ivy League Values."
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
