Theorist
Kenneth Frampton
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Details
- Nationality
- British
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawingApprenticeship
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
Ware Professor Emeritus, Columbia; author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980) and Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995).
Connections
- associated with Critical Regionalism
- authored Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance
- associated with South Asian Modernism
- authored Studies in Tectonic Culture
- proposed Critical Regionalism
- opposes Keith L. Eggener
- opposes Peter Eisenman
- developed Critical Regionalism
- collaborated with Peter Eisenman
- extends Critical Regionalism
Referenced by
- Gottfried Semper influenced
- Keith L. Eggener critiqued
- William Morris influenced
- Hannah Arendt influenced
- Jürgen Habermas influenced
Sources
- MIT Press, Studies in Tectonic Culture. n.d.. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561495/studies-in-tectonic-culture/.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Kenneth Frampton." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/kenneth-frampton/. Accessed July 17, 2026.