Kenneth Frampton
Kenneth Frampton Hon FRIBA | |
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Born | Kenneth Brian Frampton 20 November 1930 , England |
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Notable work | Modern Architecture: A Critical History Towards a Critical Regionalism |
Kenneth Brian Frampton
Biography
Frampton studied architecture at
Frampton has also taught at
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
In 2015, Frampton's library was acquired by the Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.
Writings on architecture
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.
Frampton's essay was included in the book The Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture, edited by
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
- "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.
- 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
- 2022 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
- ^ 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.
- 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
- 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