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Home » Authors » Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Frampton is an architect, critic, and historian, and Ware Professor Emeritus at GSAPP, Columbia University. In addition to Modern Architecture: A Critical History, he has written several other books and numerous essays.
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Tribute: Harry Wolf (1935–2025)

Kenneth Frampton
February 12, 2025
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The award-winning North Carolina architect created buildings that were elegant and spare, with a classic sensibility.
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Jose Oubrerie

Tribute: José Oubrerie (1932–2024)

Kenneth Frampton
April 4, 2024
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Kenneth Frampton pays tribute to the French-born educator and architect—a close collaborator of Le Corbusier—who died on March 9 in Lexington, Kentucky. 


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A Long Look Back

You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

By Wendy Lesser
Kenneth Frampton
September 1, 2017
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Wendy Lesser’s study of Louis Kahn synthe­sizes his life and work in a literary equivalent of an architectural composition.


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Writings on Architecture and the City
Frampton on Baird/Baird on Frampton

Writings on Architecture and the City

Kenneth Frampton reviews George Baird's new book.
Kenneth Frampton
May 1, 2016
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It is impossible to do justice in the space available to the critical writing of the distinguished Canadian architect/theorist George Baird.


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