Contents:
Introduction / Karla Cavarra Britton and Robert McCarter 8
Part I
The Social, Cultural, and Ecological Nature of Architecture 18
Kenneth Frampton's Idea of the "Critical" / Mary McLeod 20
World Architecture and Critical Practice / Wang Shu 43
Site-Specificity, Skilled Labor, and Culture: Architectural Principles in the Age of Climate Change / Wilfried Wang 53
That Pesky Paradisiacal Instinct / Harry Francis Mallgrave 65
Paradoxes of Progress / Joan Ockman 80
Engaging the Lifeworld in Architectural Design: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics / Alberto Perez-Gomez 94
Part II
Histories and Pedagogies of Architecture 103
Kenneth Frampton's Elusive Constructivism / Jean-Louis Cohen 106
Editing History: The Bauhaus at MoMA, 1938 / Barry Bergdoll 120
Frampton and Japan / Ken Tadashi Oshima 137
Dialectics of Utopia/Utopian Dialectics / Anthony Vidler 153
Kenneth Frampton: Apropos Housing and Cities / Richard Plunz 162
Proportion and Harmony: Mathematics and Music in Architecture / Juhani Pallasmaa 171
Mannerism Matters / Robert Maxwell 187
The Birth of Architecture from the Spirit of Conversation / Kurt W. Forster 197
On Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture / Rafael Moneo 208
A Time of Heroics: Paul Rudolph and Yale, 1958-1965 / Leopoldo Villardi 228
Part. III
Operational Criticism, Landform, and Tectonic Presence 248
On Kenneth Frampton / Steven Holl 250
An Englishman in New York / Wiel Arets 258
From the Field: Critical Regionalism and Tectonic Culture Applied / Brad Cloepfil 265
Architectural Osmosis / Shelley McNamara 278
Public Natures: A Roundtable Discussion / Justin Fowler 288
Architecture and Nature: A Recurring State of Mind / Emilio Ambasz 300
Value and the Metaphor of Phenomenology in the "Visual Schemes" of Kenneth Frampton / Ashley Simone 308
From the Archives of Kenneth Frampton / Howard Sutcliffe 327
Picture Credits 342
Acknowledgments 343
Biography of Kenneth Frampton 344
Biographies of Contributors 347
Index 347