: The latest 5th edition (2020) significantly expands on sustainability and covers global architecture previously overlooked in earlier versions. Academia.edu
This section covers the "High Modernism" of the 1920s and 30s. Here, Frampton analyzes the giants: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Frank Lloyd Wright. However, unlike hagiographies that present these men as infallible gods of design, Frampton critiques their failures and contradictions. He discusses the failure of the Weissenhof Estate, the political complexities of the Bauhaus, and the tension in Le Corbusier’s work between the mechanical and the organic.