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Architecture and the Public World: Kenneth Frampton

By (author) Kenneth Frampton, Edited by Miodrag MitraÅ¡inovic

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This book brings together Kenneth Framptonâ€™s essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historicalâ€“theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the â€œpredicamentâ€ of architecture in the new Millennium. The essays explore Framptonâ€™s contention that architectureâ€™s imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian â€˜public world.â€™ One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Framptonâ€™s work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architectureâ€™s â€˜unfinished project,â€™ while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.