Kenneth Frampton
Kenneth Frampton is an architect, architectural historian, and critic who has taught architecture at Columbia GSAPP since 1972 and at other leading institutions in Britain and Europe.
He trained at the London Architectural Association School of Architecture. His numerous publications include, L’Altro Movimento Moderno (2015), A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015), and Studies in Tectonic Culture (1996). He is currently at work on an expanded fifth edition of Modern Architecture: A Critical History. Frampton’s teaching was the subject of the 2017 exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, where his archive is held. Metropolis named him a Gamechanger in January 2018, and he was recognized with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2018 Venice Biennale for Architecture.