Time: 4:00pm cst
Location: Dudley Hall Parker Auditorium (B-6)
Professor Kenneth Frampton (1930) is Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, New York. He is an architect and architectural historian educated at the Architectural Association in London and has worked as an architect in England, Israel and the United States. He has worked in the field of housing design in both London and New York. Before migrating to the United States in 1965 he was Technical Editor of the magazine Architectural Design for three years.
From 1964-1972 he was a member of the faculty at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. With the exception of three years at the Royal College of Art in London, 1974-77, Professor Frampton has taught at Columbia University since 1972, serving as Chairman of the Division of Architecture from 1986 to 1989 and, since 1993, director of the Ph.D. program in the History and Theory of Architecture. He has taught as a visiting professor in numerous schools of architecture worldwide including the Berlage Institute, the Eidgenosche Technische Hochschule, Switzerland, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

Professor Frampton has received numerous awards including the AIA National Honors Award (1985), the L’Academie d’Architecture Gold Medal (1987), Phi Beta Kappa Award (1987), the AIA New York Chapter Award of Merit (1988) and the ASCA Topaz Award (1990). He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (1991), the University of Waterloo (1995) and California College of the Arts and Crafts (1999).
He has written extensively and contributed to numerous international journals. His publications include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980), Modern Architecture and the Critical Present (1993), American Masterworks (1995), Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995). More recently he was the editor of Latin American Architecture: Six Voices (2000), Labour, Work and Architecture: Collected Essays on Architecture and Design (2002) and Richard Meier: Complete Works (Modern Masters Series 2003).