Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, New York. He is well known for his writing on twentieth-century architecture. His books include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980; revised 1985 and 1992) and Studies in Tectonic Culture (1997).

Architecture is not only a profession but also a window on the world, and it can be deployed as an instrument to effect social change. It’s a message you’ve been spreading for years in lectures, though activities such as the RS…

Can you tell us something about the general IABR programme?
It turned out we couldn’t realise even 10% of the proposals we put in the bid book. But we decided to go ahead as Berlage Institute. The Kunsthal offered space. T…

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How can you be engaged in a polemic about something that doesn’t even exist? That depressing thought hit me during the ‘Projective Landscape’ debate staged by Stylos. The aim was to pinpoint the latest developments in architecture c…

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Curated by Paulo Martins Barata (Promontório Architects, Lisbon), with Gerrit Confurius (Editor, Berlim) and Luis Tavares Pereira (Architect, Oporto) with the support of the APM (Portuguese Management Association) and Protot…