13 Facts About Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton is regarded as one of the world's leading historians of modernist architecture and contemporary architecture.

Kenneth Frampton 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.

Kenneth Frampton is a citizen of Britain and the United States.

Kenneth Frampton has taught at Princeton University School of Architecture and the Bartlett School of Architecture, London,.

Kenneth Frampton has been a member of Columbia University's faculty since 1972, and that year he became a fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York 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.

Kenneth Frampton was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to architecture.

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

Kenneth 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.

Kenneth Frampton's books include Modern Architecture: A Critical History and Studies in Tectonic Culture.

For Kenneth 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.

Essays on Postmodern Culture, edited by Hal Foster, though Kenneth Frampton is critical of postmodernism in architecture.

Kenneth Frampton summed up his critical stance towards postmodernist architecture and its advocates' belief in the primacy of architecture as a language as follows:.