A longtime member of the faculty at Columbia University in New York, historian Kenneth Frampton, at 91 years old, remains a formidable force in architecture. In 2020, his significantly revised and expanded fifth edition of Modern Architecture: A Critical History was released, as was Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton. Yet it does not stop there, and, earlier this year, The Other Modern Movement appeared. In it, Frampton profiles 19 architects outside the Modernist mainstream. (While the book technically spans several decades, the majority of spotlighted projects were built in the 1930s.)
Some architects, like Arne Jacobsen and Erich Mendelsohn, are well-known. Others, like Pierre Chareau and Evan Owen Williams, gained fame mainly through one seminal work—the Maison de Verre in Paris and the Boots Pharmaceutical Plant in England, respectively (both completed in 1932). Still others, like Vilhelm Lauritzen, Alejandro de la Soto, and Jaromír Krejcar (whose Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 illustrates the book cover), you may not have heard of at all. Then there’s Rudolf Schindler and his onetime collaborator and later rival Richard Neutra, who seem as if they don’t belong among the “outsiders.”
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