Dallas Architecture Forum Presents Lecture by Kenneth Frampton March 21, 2013

Kenneth Frampton is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. Frampton studied architecture at Guildford School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London and was the Technical Editor of the journal Architectural Design. Frampton has also taught at Princeton University and the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. 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, and is 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 and Studies in Tectonic Culture. Frampton achieved great prominence and influence in architectural education with his essay "Towards a Critical Regionalism". This essay was included in the book The Anti-Aesthetic. Frampton also wrote the widely regarded Essays on Postmodern Culture. In 2002 a collection of Frampton's writings over a period of 35 years was published under the title Labour, Work and Architecture. A select list of Frampton's books includes: Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance; Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Architecture; Modern Architecture: A Critical History; Le Corbusier (World of Art); Labour, Work and Architecture; and The Evolution of 20th-Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account.

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