Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art)

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Summary: Does this book come in english?
Review: This book may have some excellent insights to modern architecture, but it's not for everyone. Some architectural academia people, that I respect very much, like Kenneth Frampton. There is possibility that Frampton is brilliant and very well educated but his book is difficult to read. He packs his writing with a lot of information but I had to read everything twice or three times because of another reason. His writing style must be an english teacher's nightmare. All of his sentences are run-on sentences. He has whole paragraphs that are single sentences. I counted the words in one of his sentences; it came to seventy nine words. An old, wise english college professor of mine gave me this advice. Keep sentences short and simple.

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Summary: An interpretive classic of architectural modernity
Review: This book remains the only interpretive history of modern architecture and culture. It is scholarly, intelligent, infused with critical opinion and a true document of thought (as opposed to a banal catalogue of dates and facts). All of the words used are readily available to the English language reader, and their meaning demands to be grappled with. This is how deeper understanding is achieved. Do not open this book if you expect a pseudo-objective outline of neutralized information.

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Summary: A must for every architecture student
Review: This is THE architecture history book for anyone interested in going beyond the historic facts into the thoughts of the architecture master

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Summary: You could do without.
Review: This survey of 20th-century architecture with much pretension to critical analysis and expert knowledge is no more than a mythical dungeon of gobbledygook. Frampton's text has little if any power to communicate with the readers. As a matter of fact, his willingness to communicate with the readers is even more doubtful. This printed manuscript of jargon is so pretentious and confusing that no novice could make any pretensions to understanding of the book; and an aficiodano with expert knowledge of the subject could learn no more than he already knows by following this book's narrow path. Kenneth Frampton is reputed to be in the same league of writers such as Charles Jencks, Esther McCoy, Edward Ford, etc. The publication of this book has certainly done him no justice.