Modern Architecture: a Critical History

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‘A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural scholarship, this ambitious publication contains many chapters that stand on their own as perceptive essays; it is marked throughout by a consistently mature critical intelligence’ New York Review of Books. This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980.. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new chapter that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent years, the phenomenon of the celebrity architect, and the way in which practices worldwide have addressed such issues as sustainability and habitat.. The bibliography has also been updated and expanded, making this volume more complete and indispensable than ever.. Table of Contents. Introduction • Part I: Cultural Developments and Predisposing Techniques 1750–1939 • Part II:?A Critical History 1836–1967 • Part III: Critical Assessment and Extension into the Present 1925–2007