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Kenneth Frampton

March 17, 2024

Kenneth Brian Frampton CBE (born 20 November 1930) is a British architect, critic and historian. He is regarded as one of the world's leading historians of modernist and contemporary architecture. He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York, where he taught for over 50 years. He is a citizen of Britain and the United States.

Kenneth Frampton

Hon FRIBA
Kenneth Frampton at GSAPP (2014)
Born
Kenneth Brian Frampton

(1930-11-20) 20 November 1930 (age 93)
Woking, Surrey, England
Occupations
  • Architect
  • critic
  • historian
Notable workModern Architecture: A Critical History
Towards a Critical Regionalism

Biography edit

Frampton 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) in London, 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). While working for Douglas Stephen and Partners he designed in 1960-62 the Corringham Building, an 8-story block of flats in Bayswater, London, the architecture of which is distinctively modernist; in 1998 it became protected as a listed building.[1]

Frampton has also taught at Princeton University School of Architecture (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.

In 2017 the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which holds Frampton's archive, held an exhibition titled Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton that examined aspects of his teaching at Columbia University, that informed his key publications.[2]

Frampton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to architecture.[3]

In 2015, Frampton's library was acquired by the Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.

Writings on architecture edit

Frampton is especially well known for his writing on twentieth- and twenty-first century architecture, and for his central role in the development of architectural phenomenology.[4] His books include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980; revised 1985, 1992, 2007 and 2020) and Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995). Frampton achieved great prominence (and influence) in architectural education with his essay "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance" (1983) – term, critical regionalism, had been coined by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre.[5] In this paper, he mounts a criticism of globalisation, mass consumer culture and the impact that this has had on architecture. For Frampton, this represents a particularly salient issue within the Modern Movement, as it has pushed architecture toward mediocrity, sameness and urban form that lacks any kind of cultural relevance or specificity. To remedy this, Frampton argues that the adoption of a more critical regionalist approach is required in architecture, one that takes into account specific considerations of place, topography, climate, and culture, as well as the creation of new "vernacular" forms of architecture.

Frampton's essay was included in the book The Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture, edited by Hal Foster, though Frampton is critical of postmodernism in architecture. 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). He summed up his critical stance towards postmodernist architecture and its advocates' belief in the primacy of architecture as a language as follows:

It seems to me that we cannot escape from two aspects of architecture which I tried to identify ... as ontological tectonic and representational tectonic. Representation certainly cannot be removed from architecture any more that it can be removed from other discourses. ... In my opinion, it is of the utmost importance that the ontological and representational aspects of architecture be maintained as a dialogical interaction. I think that the attempt to isolate atomized elements such as morphemes is, in the end, a kind of reductive pseudo-scientific project, which just leaves you with the banality of pieces such as 'a door is a sign of a door' rather than with any notion as to the socio-cultural, complex desire of the species-being to realise itself, collectively.[6]

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. An English translation of his 2015 book, The Other Modern Movement, is due out in 2021. In addition to his own scholarly research and criticism, Frampton has frequently furthered the intellectual reach of his work through writing introductions, prefaces and forewords for other authors and publications on allied themes.[7]

Select list of Frampton's writings edit

  • "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance", in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. edited by Hal Foster, Bay Press, Port Townsen (1983).
  • Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995.
  • Álvaro Siza. Complete Works, Phaidon, London, 2000, ISBN 978-0714840048
  • Le Corbusier (World of Art). Thames & Hudson, London, 2001.
  • Labour, Work and Architecture. Phaidon Press, London, 2002.
  • "Ando at the Millennium", in Tadao Ando: Light and Water. Book Design by Massimo Vignelli. The Monacelli Press, New York, 2003.
  • The Evolution of 20th-Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account. Springer, New York, 2006.
  • FRAMPTON K., STRAUVEN F., GÜBLER J. & VERPOEST L., Georges Baines, Ludion, Gent, 2006.
  • Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, London, Fifth Edition (2020).
  • American Masterworks: Houses of the Twentieth & Twenty-First Centuries, edited by David Larkin. Rizzoli, New York (2008).
  • Five North American Architects: An Anthology by Kenneth Frampton, Lars Muller, Zurich, (2012).
  • Genealogy of Modern Architecture: A Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form, Lars Muller, Zurich, (2014).
  • L'altro Movimento Moderno. Edited by Ludovica Molo. Mendrisio Academy Press-Silvana Editoriale, Mendrisio-Milan 2015.

Writings on Kenneth Frampton

  • Daniel Sherer, "Architecture in the Labyrinth. Theory and Criticism in the United States: Oppositions, Assemblage, ANY (1973–1999)," Zodiac 20 (1999), 36–63.
  • Jorge Otero-Pailos, Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, (2010), 183–250.
  • Tom Avermaete, Veronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Lea-Catherine Szacka (eds), Oase #103: Critical Regionalism Revisited, (2019), ISBN 9789462084865.
  • Karla Cavarra Britton and Robert McCarter, editors, Modern Architecture in the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton (Thames & Hudson, 2020, ISBN 9780500343630).
  • Stylianos Giamarelos, Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical Regionalism before Globalisation. UCL Press, London (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800081338

Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ Welcome to Corringham
  2. ^ "Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton [Press Release]". Canadian Centre for Architecture. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  3. ^ "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B9.
  4. ^ Otero-Pailos, Jorge (2010). Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 183–249. ISBN 9780816666041. Ch. 5: Surplus Experience: Kenneth Frampton and the Subterfuges of Bourgeois Taste
  5. ^ Giamarelos, Stylianos (2022). Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical Regionalism before Globalisation, London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800081338
  6. ^ Kenneth Frampton interview, Datutop 18, 1996.
  7. ^ Leach, Andrew; Sully, Nicole (2019). "Frampton's Forewords, etc.: An Introduction'". Oase: Journal for Architecture (103: Critical Regionalism Revisited): 105–113.
  8. ^ "Kenneth Frampton 2022 thomas jefferson foundation medalist in architecture". 29 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Kenneth Frampton Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement". La Biennale di Venezia. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Kenneth Frampton wins Lifetime Achievement Award at Lisbon Triennale". ArchDaily. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  11. ^ "Erich Schelling Architecture Award". Architecture Scope. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  12. ^ "The Architectural League of New York | President's Medal Awarded to Kenneth Frampton". archleague.org. Retrieved 18 December 2017.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kenneth Frampton.
  • Images of Kenneth Frampton for Mark Magazine. Photographed by Jeff Barnett-Winsby in 2007
  • Corringham Extensive detail about Frampton's design in Bayswater, London
  • Frampton in conversation with Carlos Brillembourg Brooklyn Rail: Arts
  • Finding aid for the Kenneth Frampton fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture (digitized items)
  • A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton: Can There Be a Global Architectural History Today?, Canadian Centre for Architecture

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Kenneth Brian Frampton CBE born 20 November 1930 is a British architect critic and historian He is regarded as one of the world s leading historians of modernist and contemporary architecture He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University New York where he taught for over 50 years He is a citizen of Britain and the United States Kenneth FramptonHon FRIBAKenneth Frampton at GSAPP 2014 BornKenneth Brian Frampton 1930 11 20 20 November 1930 age 93 Woking Surrey EnglandOccupationsArchitectcritichistorianNotable workModern Architecture A Critical HistoryTowards a Critical Regionalism Contents 1 Biography 2 Writings on architecture 3 Select list of Frampton s writings 4 Awards 5 References 6 External linksBiography editFrampton 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 in London 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 While working for Douglas Stephen and Partners he designed in 1960 62 the Corringham Building an 8 story block of flats in Bayswater London the architecture of which is distinctively modernist in 1998 it became protected as a listed building 1 Frampton has also taught at Princeton University School of Architecture 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 In 2017 the Canadian Centre for Architecture which holds Frampton s archive held an exhibition titled Educating Architects Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton that examined aspects of his teaching at Columbia University that informed his key publications 2 Frampton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to architecture 3 In 2015 Frampton s library was acquired by the Department of Architecture The University of Hong Kong Writings on architecture editFrampton is especially well known for his writing on twentieth and twenty first century architecture and for his central role in the development of architectural phenomenology 4 His books include Modern Architecture A Critical History 1980 revised 1985 1992 2007 and 2020 and Studies in Tectonic Culture 1995 Frampton achieved great prominence and influence in architectural education with his essay Towards a Critical Regionalism Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance 1983 term critical regionalism had been coined by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre 5 In this paper he mounts a criticism of globalisation mass consumer culture and the impact that this has had on architecture For Frampton this represents a particularly salient issue within the Modern Movement as it has pushed architecture toward mediocrity sameness and urban form that lacks any kind of cultural relevance or specificity To remedy this Frampton argues that the adoption of a more critical regionalist approach is required in architecture one that takes into account specific considerations of place topography climate and culture as well as the creation of new vernacular forms of architecture Frampton s essay was included in the book The Anti Aesthetic Essays on Postmodern Culture edited by Hal Foster though Frampton is critical of postmodernism in architecture 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 He summed up his critical stance towards postmodernist architecture and its advocates belief in the primacy of architecture as a language as follows It seems to me that we cannot escape from two aspects of architecture which I tried to identify as ontological tectonic and representational tectonic Representation certainly cannot be removed from architecture any more that it can be removed from other discourses In my opinion it is of the utmost importance that the ontological and representational aspects of architecture be maintained as a dialogical interaction I think that the attempt to isolate atomized elements such as morphemes is in the end a kind of reductive pseudo scientific project which just leaves you with the banality of pieces such as a door is a sign of a door rather than with any notion as to the socio cultural complex desire of the species being to realise itself collectively 6 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 An English translation of his 2015 book The Other Modern Movement is due out in 2021 In addition to his own scholarly research and criticism Frampton has frequently furthered the intellectual reach of his work through writing introductions prefaces and forewords for other authors and publications on allied themes 7 Select list of Frampton s writings edit Towards a Critical Regionalism Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance in The Anti Aesthetic Essays on Postmodern Culture edited by Hal Foster Bay Press Port Townsen 1983 Studies in Tectonic Culture The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture MIT Press Cambridge Mass 1995 Alvaro Siza Complete Works Phaidon London 2000 ISBN 978 0714840048 Le Corbusier World of Art Thames amp Hudson London 2001 Labour Work and Architecture Phaidon Press London 2002 Ando at the Millennium in Tadao Ando Light and Water Book Design by Massimo Vignelli The Monacelli Press New York 2003 The Evolution of 20th Century Architecture A Synoptic Account Springer New York 2006 FRAMPTON K STRAUVEN F GUBLER J amp VERPOEST L Georges Baines Ludion Gent 2006 Modern Architecture A Critical History World of Art Thames amp Hudson London Fifth Edition 2020 American Masterworks Houses of the Twentieth amp Twenty First Centuries edited by David Larkin Rizzoli New York 2008 Five North American Architects An Anthology by Kenneth Frampton Lars Muller Zurich 2012 Genealogy of Modern Architecture A Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form Lars Muller Zurich 2014 L altro Movimento Moderno Edited by Ludovica Molo Mendrisio Academy Press Silvana Editoriale Mendrisio Milan 2015 Writings on Kenneth Frampton Daniel Sherer Architecture in the Labyrinth Theory and Criticism in the United States Oppositions Assemblage ANY 1973 1999 Zodiac 20 1999 36 63 Jorge Otero Pailos Architecture s Historical Turn Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis 2010 183 250 Tom Avermaete Veronique Patteeuw Hans Teerds Lea Catherine Szacka eds Oase 103 Critical Regionalism Revisited 2019 ISBN 9789462084865 Karla Cavarra Britton and Robert McCarter editors Modern Architecture in the Lifeworld Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton Thames amp Hudson 2020 ISBN 9780500343630 Stylianos Giamarelos Resisting Postmodern Architecture Critical Regionalism before Globalisation UCL Press London 2022 DOI https doi org 10 14324 111 9781800081338Awards edit2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture 8 2018 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Venice Biennale of Architecture 9 2021 Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE 2021 Queen s Birthday Honours 2014 Lisbon Triennale Millennium BCP Lifetime Achievement Award 10 2012 Schelling Architecture Theory Prize 11 2005 Architectural League of New York President s Medal 12 References edit Welcome to Corringham Educating Architects Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton Press Release Canadian Centre for Architecture Retrieved 6 June 2019 No 63377 The London Gazette Supplement 12 June 2021 p B9 Otero Pailos Jorge 2010 Architecture s Historical Turn Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern University of Minnesota Press pp 183 249 ISBN 9780816666041 Ch 5 Surplus Experience Kenneth Frampton and the Subterfuges of Bourgeois Taste Giamarelos Stylianos 2022 Resisting Postmodern Architecture Critical Regionalism before Globalisation London UCL Press DOI https doi org 10 14324 111 9781800081338 Kenneth Frampton interview Datutop 18 1996 Leach Andrew Sully Nicole 2019 Frampton s Forewords etc An Introduction Oase Journal for Architecture 103 Critical Regionalism Revisited 105 113 Kenneth Frampton 2022 thomas jefferson foundation medalist in architecture 29 March 2022 Kenneth Frampton Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement La Biennale di Venezia 18 April 2018 Retrieved 19 April 2018 Kenneth Frampton wins Lifetime Achievement Award at Lisbon Triennale ArchDaily 18 December 2013 Retrieved 18 December 2017 Erich Schelling Architecture Award Architecture Scope 5 March 2014 Retrieved 18 December 2017 The Architectural League of New York President s Medal Awarded to Kenneth Frampton archleague org Retrieved 18 December 2017 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kenneth Frampton Images of Kenneth Frampton for Mark Magazine Photographed by Jeff Barnett Winsby in 2007 Corringham Extensive detail about Frampton s design in Bayswater London Frampton in conversation with Carlos Brillembourg Brooklyn Rail Arts Finding aid for the Kenneth Frampton fonds Canadian Centre for Architecture digitized items A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton Can There Be a Global Architectural History Today Canadian Centre for Architecture Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 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