Kenneth Frampton
Biographical interview
SUMMARY
This interview of Kenneth Frampton begins with his upbringing in a family of craftsmen which instilled in him a lifelong respect for the craftsmanship of architecture. He recounts his formative education at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, where he was influenced by seminal texts like Mumford’s Techniques and Civilization and the teaching of figures such as Peter Smithson. Frampton describes his subsequent professional development, including a pivotal year working in Israel and his later, often contentious involvement with the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) in New York alongside Peter Eisenman. Throughout the discussion, he expresses a critical view of modern architectural education for its neglect of apprenticeship while also noting a growing disconnect between scholarly architectural history and actual practice.
BIOGRAPHY
Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP, where he has taught since 1972. He was trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London and has worked as an architect and as an architectural historian and critic. He is the author of Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1980), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), Le Corbusier (2001), Labour, Work & Architecture (2005), and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015).
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