Reading Kenneth Frampton

This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Framptons Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Framptons historiography of modern architecture. It explores selected themes in line with Framptons many-faceted contribution, certain aspects of which can be noted between the lines of his ongoing criticism of the present-day architecture, which inevitably lead us to a critical understanding of the past, the modernity of architectures contemporaneity. The compiled chapters attempt to open a window onto the constellation of themes that allowed Frampton to hold on to his anteroom view of history even amidst the flow of time and flood of temporalities spanning 19802020. The book elucidates how Framptons critical presentation of the history of modern movement architecture and the books classificatory mode (periodization?) contribute to our understanding of the contemporaneity of architecture today.