Quotes by Kenneth Frampton

About Kenneth Frampton:

Kenneth Frampton is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. He has been a permanent resident of the USA since the mid-1980s.
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Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

Kenneth Frampton

You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there.

Kenneth Frampton

From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity o...

Kenneth Frampton

Author Bio

  • NameKenneth Frampton
  • DescriptionArchitecture critic and historian (b.1980)
  • AliasesKenneth B. Frampton
  • Born1930
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionArchitect; Architecture Critic; Author