born 1930
Kenneth Frampton is a British architect, critic, historian and Professor of
Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning,
Columbia University, New York.
He studied architecture at Guildford School of Art and
the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Subsequently he
worked in Israel, with Middlesex County Council and Douglas Stephen and Partners
(1961-66), during which time he was also a visiting tutor at the Royal College
of Art (1961-64), tutor at the Architectural Association (1961-63) and Technical
Editor of the journal Architectural Design (AD) (1962-65).
Frampton has also taught at Princeton
University (1966-71) and the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, (1980). He
has been a member of the faculty at Columbia University since 1972, and that
same year he became a fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
in New York – (whose members also included
Peter Eisenman,
Manfredo Tafuri and
Rem Koolhaas)
– and a co-founding editor of its magazine
Oppositions.
Frampton is well known for his writing on twentieth-century architecture. His
books include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980; revised 1985
and 1992) and Studies in Tectonic Culture (1997). Frampton achieved great
prominence (and influence) in architectural education with his essay "Towards a
Critical Regionalism" (1983) – though the term had
already been coined by Alex Tzonis and Liliane Lefaivre. Also, Frampton's essay
was included in a book The Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture,
edited by Hal Foster, though Frampton is critical of postmodernism. Frampton's
own position attempts to defend a version of modernism that looks to either
critical regionalism or a 'momentary' understanding of the autonomy of
architectural practice in terms of its own concerns with form and tectonics
which cannot be reduced to economics (whilst conversely retaining a Leftist
viewpoint regarding the social responsibility of architecture).
In 2002 a collection of Frampton's writings over a period of 35 years was
collated and published under the title Labour, Work and Architecture.
Select list of Frampton's writings:
Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001.
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, London, Third edition (1992).
Le Corbusier (World of Art). Thames & Hudson, London, 2001.
Labour, Work and Architecture. Phaidon Press, London, 2002.
The Evolution of 20th-Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account. Springer, New York, 2006.
Source: Wikipedia
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