Modern Architecture: A Critical History

This acclaimed survey of 20th-century architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Now revised, enlarged and expanded, Kenneth Frampton brings the story up to date and adds an entirely new concluding chapter that focuses on four countries where individual talent and enlightened patronage have combined to produce a comprehensive and convincing architectural culture: Finland, France, Spain and Japan. The bibliography has also been reviewed and extended, making this volume more indispensable than ever. 362 illus. "A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural scholarship...marked throughout by a consistently mature critical intelligence." --Ada Louise Huxtable, New York Review of Books "One of the most important works on modern architecture we have today." --Architectural Design