Kenneth Frampton   The Seville-born master’s birth centenary is being celebrated in Madrid with an exhibition at Museo ICO, for the catalog of which the British critic has written an extensive assessment of his career…

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Kenneth Frampton has the handwriting of an architect: an elegant and regular calligraphy that shows the visual culture of a disciplined education. When awarded the Golden Lion at the 2018 Venice Biennale, the British historian and critic said of his

Kenneth Frampton   Anthony Vidler, the architectural historian and critic who was professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, was the author of books including Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism and Th

Kenneth Frampton   Material austerity, importance of light, and connection with nature are key aspects of the existentialist work of the Japanese master.  

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The simultaneous release in 2021 of translations of books by Colin St John Wilson and Kenneth Frampton, both on dissident modernities, is reason to revise the architectural canons of the past century, and a coinciding volume by José Ignacio Linazasor

Kenneth Frampton   Peter Buchanan   Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani   Last summer, The New York Times Magazine held a Zoom gathering of three architects (Toshiko Mori, Annabelle Selldorf, Vincent Van Duysen), two designers (Es Devlin, Tom Dixon), and three journalists of the newspaper (Tom Delavan, Nikil Saval, Kurt So

Kenneth Frampton   To attempt to expand on an account of the evolution of the Modern Movement in architecture at the time of writing is a contradictory and disturbing experience. While the level of professional talent and skill in the field is higher today, worldwide,

Kenneth Frampton   Undeterred by the vagaries of fashion, Alberto Campo Baeza has kept his faith for over half a century with the Platonic purity of his unique architectural vision, amplified of late by shifting his work to the time-honored paradigms of the temenos and

The rate at which globalization advances may have accustomed us to the contrary, but architecture requires time: time to be conceived, time to be built, time to be inhabited. Normally these times follow one another, consecutively, but sometimes they

Jacques Herzog For a young architect at the beginning of his career it is a challenging moment to see the widely admired work of established colleagues, often with a mixture of disdain and admiration. For my generation this moment was in the 1980s, a

Kenneth Frampton The famed British critic and historian Kenneth Frampton won the Soane Medal, given by the Sir John Soane Museum in London in recognition of the work of people that, through their profession, education, history, and theory “have manag

Kenneth Frampton   Please excuse my very delayed response to your Alexandrine Years. I have been preoccupied of late in trying to finish, at long last, the ‘impossible’ expansion of Modern Architecture: A Critical History so as to shift the focus away from Europe and t

Kenneth Frampton Kenneth Frampton (London, 1930) was in May awarded the Golden Lion of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. In the words of the exhibition curators, Grafton Architects, the British historian and architect represents the “humanistic

Kenneth Frampton   The illusory somewhat agricultural character of the Bagsværd Church, designed soon after Jørn Utzon’s return to Denmark from Australia, seems to confirm that in a secular age spiritual structures may be more effectively evoked through the evocation o

Kenneth Frampton (London, 1930) was in May awarded the Golden Lion of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. In the words of the curators, the British historian and architect represents the “humanistic component” of “the various ‘movements’ and trend

Kenneth Frampton   Rafael Moneo   After an encounter in Madrid, shortly before Rafael Moneo turned eighty, the Spanish architect and the historian and critic Kenneth Frampton had an epistolary conversation which we reproduce here.

On 27 January, the British architect, critic, and historian Kenneth Frampton, born in 1930, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). The laudatio, delivered by Alberto Campo Baeza, acknowledged his teaching life

Kenneth Frampton   In an architectural practice of consistent quality one invariably encounters key works that play a particularly formative role in the gradual evolution of a ‘house’ style. In this regard certain pieces seem to have been particularly seminal in the de

Kenneth Frampton   At his investiture as Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Alcalá, Kenneth Frampton spoke of the virtues that have made Spanish architecture so admired abroad.

Isabel Rodríguez   Kengo Kuma belongs to the generation of Japanese architects that has known to uphold a fully modern architecture without relinquishing tradition. A defender of local values in a globalized world, Kuma has centered his work on the quality of materials

Eduardo Prieto   That climate has a bearing on architecture is a commoplace. Nevertheless, to explain how this bearing has come about is an achievement, and for this the latest books published by Professor Dean Hawkes deserve recognition: two histories of architectur

Eduardo Prieto   La historia de las relaciones entre la arquitectura y la filosofía tiene un origen preciso. Con el fin de la idea clásica de belleza, la arquitectura, como el resto de las artes, se quedó huérfana de sus tradicionales principios normativos, y comenzó

Kenneth Frampton   Anonymous architecture is a theme that interests me greatly, as does industrial architecture, for they are works with no direct message, capable of creating very beautiful atmospheres, personages that do not speak but make themselves understood perfe

Kenneth Frampton   Arquitectura 1920-1070

Barry Bergdoll   Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos

Kenneth Frampton   Architecture, 1920-1970

ZAO / standardarchitecture   Berlín  2021  
ArchiTangle   - 288 Pages 

Kenneth Frampton Michael Webb   A Laboratory for Living

Kenneth Frampton   London  2020  
Thames & Hudson   - 736 Pages 

Kenneth Frampton   Barcelona  2018  
Gustavo Gili   - 94 Pages 

Kenneth Frampton Ashley Simone   Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form

Kenneth Frampton   Complete Works

Kenneth Frampton   Pamplona  2012  
T6 Ediciones   - 103 Pages 

Kenneth Frampton   Architecture, Situations

Kenneth Frampton   John Miller + Partners

Francesco Dal Co Kenneth Frampton Juhani Pallasmaa   Ostfildern  2008  
Hatje Cantz   - 228 Pages 

Peter Eisenman Kenneth Frampton Mario Gandelsonas Anthony Vidler Colin Rowe Diana Agrest     1973  
The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies  

Thomas Weaver   Arquitecturas 1990-2002

Hal Foster   Nueva York  2002  
Verso   - 176 Pages 

Cambridge (Mass)  2002  
MIT Press   - 428 Pages 

Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm   Viena  2003  
Springer   - 191 Pages 

Kenneth Frampton   Viena  2002  
Springer   - 294 Pages 

Kenneth Frampton   Milán  2002  
Mondadori Electa   - 415 Pages 

Kenneth Frampton   Milán  1999  
Mondadori Electa   - 620 Pages