Modern Architecture: A Critical History—Kenneth Frampton

Since its first edition in 1980, Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History has become an essential classic in academic literature on the history of modern architecture. In this fifth, extensively revised and updated edition, the author has added a new and extensive section that explores in detail the evolution of the Modern Movement in architecture worldwide in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It examines the various ways in which architects not only respond to geographical, climatic, material, and cultural contexts, but also follow different lines of approach in relation to topography, morphology, sustainability, and civic form.