Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton ( born 1930 in Woking, Surrey ) is a British- American architect, architectural historian and author. Frampton is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, New York.

Life

From 1950-1956, Kenneth Frampton was trained at the Architectural Association in London. After two years in the British Army, he spent a year traveling to Israel. He then worked in a London architectural firm, then three years as editor of the magazine Architectural Design. In 1965 he traveled to the United States.

From 1964-1972 he taught at Princeton University from 1972-74 at Columbia University from 1974 to 1977 at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1977 he returned to Columbia University.

He also taught at the ETH Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio.

Selected Works

  • Kenneth Frampton: Modern Architecture. A Critical History. 4 edition. Thames & Hudson, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-500-20395-8.
  • Buildings and Projects 1979 - 1989 DVA 1991, ISBN 3-421-02985-7
  • The architecture of modernity. A critical architectural history Stuttgart 1991 ISBN 3-421-02802-8
  • Atelier 5 settlements and urban development projects Birkäuser, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-7643-6258-8
  • Studies in Tectonic Culture. The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture ( 1997)
  • Harry Seidler - Riverside Centre 1988 ISBN 3-7828-4002- X
  • Villas in America. Masterworks of Modern Art. Kohlhammerstraße, 2002 ISBN 3-17-013868-5
  • Le Corbusier Thames & Hudson; 2001
  • Basics of Architecture 1993
  • Alvaro Siza. The complete works of German publishing house, 2000 ISBN 3-421-03263-7
  • The architecture of modernity. A critical history of building. DVA 2004, ISBN 3-421-03075-8
  • The development of architecture in the 20th century. A comparative overview Vienna 2006 ISBN 3-211-31196-3
  • Revised and expanded ( to 2010) re: The Architecture of Modernity - A Critical History of Architecture, German publishing institution, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-421-03768-8
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