Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton (Hardcover)

Introduction, Karla Cavarra Britton and Robert McCarter

PART I: The Social, Cultural, and Ecological Nature of Architecture ? Kenneth Frampton’s Idea of the “Critical”, Mary McLeod ? World Architecture and Critical Practice, Wang Shu ? Site-Specificity, Skilled Labor, and Culture: Architectural Principles in the Age of Climate Change, Wilfried Wang ? That Pesky Paradisiacal Instinct …, Harry Francis Mallgrave ? Paradoxes of Progress, Joan Ockman ? Engaging the Lifeworld in Architectural Design: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Alberto Perez-Gomez

PART II: Histories and Pedagogies of Architecture ? Kenneth Frampton’s Elusive Constructivism, Jean-Louis Cohen ? Editing History: the Bauhaus at MoMA, 1938, Barry Bergdoll ? Frampton and Japan, Ken Tadashi Oshima ? Dialectics of Utopia/Utopian Dialectics, Anthony Vidler ? Frampton: Apropos Housing and Cities, Richard Plunz ? Proportion and Harmony: Mathematics and Music in Architecture, Juhani Pallasmaa ? Mannerism Matters, Robert Maxwell ? The Birth of Architecture from the Spirit of Conversation, Kurt W. Forster ? On Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Rafael Moneo ? A Time of Heroics: Paul Rudolph and Yale, 1958?1965, Robert A.M. Stern with Leopoldo Villardi

PART III: Operational Criticism, Landform, and Tectonic Presence ? On Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl ? An Englishman in New York, Wiel Arets ? From the Field: Critical Regionalism and Tectonic Culture Applied, Brad Cloepfil ? Architectural Osmosis, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara ? Public Natures: A Roundtable Discussion, Kenneth Frampton, Marion Weiss, Michael A. Manfredi with Justin Fowler ? Architecture and Nature: A Recurring State of Mind, Emilio Ambasz ? Value and the Metaphor of Phenomenology in the “Visual Schemes” of Kenneth Frampton, Ashley Simone ? From the Archives of Kenneth Frampton, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe ? Biography of Kenneth Frampton ? Biographies of Contributors ? Index