This text aims to clarify the various turns that structural engineering and tectonic imagination have taken, showing how both constructional form and material character were integral to an evolving architectural expression.
Studies in tectonic culture: the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twe…
by Cava, John, Frampton, Kenneth, Architekturtheoretiker, Frampton, Kenneth, Théoricien de l'architecture, Frampton, Kenneth, Architecture theoretician, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago, Ill.)
"Studies in Tectonic Culture is nothing less than a rethinking of the entire modern architectural tradition. The notion of tectonics as employed by Frampton - the focus on architecture as a constructional craft - constitutes a direct challenge to current mainstream thinking on t…
"Studies in Tectonic Culture is nothing less than a rethinking of the entire modern architectural tradition. The notion of tectonics as employed by Frampton - the focus on architecture as a constructional craft - constitutes a direct challenge to current mainstream thinking on t…