Architecture and the Public World brings together key writings by Kenneth Frampton, the eminent architectural historian and critic, from the 1980s to the present. Articles are grouped into thematic sections representing abiding concerns of Frampton's criticism: history and critical theory; modes of criticism; the vicissitudes of urban form, and tactility, tectonics, and resistance. The volume also includes a new interview with Frampton and an essay by Clive Dilnot exploring the relevance of Frampton's thought for design history and criticism.The anthology represents Frampton's abiding concern for labor and the political dimensions of architecture, including his development of the concept of 'critical regionalism', but, in featuring writings from across the range and breadth of Frampton's career, enables a broader understanding of his work, demonstrating the potential for architectural interpretation and analysis to function as a mode of cultural criticism.

Includes a new interview with Frampton by Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Parsons School of Design

AcknowledgmentsEditorial NotesList of FiguresKenneth Frampton: A Brief Biographical SketchIntroduction, Miodrag Mitrasinovic (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA)Kenneth Frampton in Conversation with Miodrag Mitrasinovic (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA)SECTION ONE: The Human Condition and the Critical PresentIntroduction to Section OneThe Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human ConditionIndustrialization and the Crises in ArchitectureApropos Ulm: Curriculum and Critical TheoryModern Architecture: A Critical History, Introduction to the 1st EditionTowards an Ontological Architecture: A Philosophical ExcursusSECTION TWO: Urban Landscape and the Eclipse of the Public RealmIntroduction to Section TwoAmerica 1960-1970: Notes on Urban Images and TheoryThe Generic Street as a Continuous Built FormTechnology, Place, and ArchitectureCivic FormThe Legacy of Alvar Aalto: Evolution and InfluenceToward an Urban LandscapeMegaform as Urban LandscapeLand Settlement, Architecture, and the Eclipse of the Public RealmSECTION THREE: Cross-Cultural Trajectories, Place Creation, and the Politics of Counter FormIntroduction to Section ThreeOn Reading HeideggerTowards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of ResistanceTadao Ando's Critical ModernismPlace-Form and Cultural IdentityModernization and Local CultureThe Predicament of the Place-Form: Notes from New YorkPlan Form and Topography in the Work of Kashef ChowdhurySociety of Architectural Historians Plenary TalkSECTION FOUR: The Predicament of Architecture in the New MillenniumIntroduction to Section FourArchitecture, Philosophy, and the Education of ArchitectsReflections on the Autonomy of Architecture: A Critique of Contemporary ProductionSeven Points for the Millennium: An Untimely ManifestoTypology and Participation: The Architecture of Álvaro SizaTowards an Agonistic ArchitectureThe Unfinished Project at the End of Modernity: Tectonic Form and the Space of Public AppearanceAfterword: "The Criticism of Architecture is Worth More Than Architecture," by Clive DilnotBibliographic SourcesBiographies