by Kenneth Frampton · Gustsvo Gili · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425210518
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«Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna» is Kenneth Frampton's essay, published by Gustavo Gili in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
The book covers architecture from 1750 to 1978, linking technical changes and the debate of ideas. It analyses functionalism, constructivism, De Stijl, the Bauhaus and the new brutalism, and details figures such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, as well as the new monumentality and art deco.
The translation from English is by Esteve Riambau i Sauri; the edition includes illustrations, bibliography and index.
Suitable for students and professionals of architecture, as well as for readers interested in the cultural history of the twentieth century.
Kenneth Brian Frampton is a British architect, critic and historian. He is regarded as one of the world's leading historians of modernist architecture and contemporary architecture. He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York, where he taught for over 50 years. He is a citizen of Britain and the United States.
