The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970

A revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness

Usually associated with Mies and Le Corbusier, the Modern Movement was instrumental in advancing new technologies of construction in architecture, including the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete. Renowned historian Kenneth Frampton offers a bold look at this crucial period, focusing on architects less commonly associated with the movement in order to reveal the breadth and complexity of architectural modernism. The Other Modern Movement profiles nineteen architects, each of whom consciously contributed to the evolution of a new architectural typology through a key work realized between 1922 and 1962.

Frampton's account offers new insights into iconic buildings like Eileen Gray's E-1027 House in France and Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California, as well as lesser-known works such as Antonin Raymond's Tokyo Golf Club and Alejandro de la Sota's Maravillas School Gymnasium in Madrid. Foregrounding the ways that these diverse projects employed progressive models, advanced new methods in construction techniques, and displayed a new sociocultural awareness, Frampton shines a light on the rich legacy of the Modern Movement and the enduring potential of the unfinished modernist project.

Author: Kenneth Frampton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.70w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780300238891

About the Author
Kenneth Frampton is an architect and historian and is Ware Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Studies in Tectonic Culture, A Genealogy of Modern Architecture, and Modern Architecture: A Critical History.