Kenneth Frampton is an architect, critic, historian, and previously Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (1972-2021). His most important works include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Thames & Hudson, 1980; 5th edition 2020), Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (MIT Press, 1995), and The Other Modern Movement (Yale University Press,2021).

Frampton will reflect on the historical and theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and the environment, as well as on the question of “predicament” of architecture in the neo-liberal, capitalist world since the 1980s and well into the new Millennium.

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