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Title: 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.
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