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.

  • ISBN

    9780300238891
  • Title

    The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
  • Author

    Kenneth Frampton
  • Publisher

    Yale University Press, New Haven and London
  • Publication year

    2021
  • Binding

    Hardcover
  • Language

    English

The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970

Cite: "The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970" 22 Apr 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/960538/the-other-modern-movement-architecture-1920-nil-1970> ISSN 0719-8884

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