Kenneth Frampton
Kenneth Frampton
Kenneth Frampton, is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. He has been a permanent resident of the USA since the mid-1980s. Frampton is regarded as one of the world's leading architecture historians of modernist architecture...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArchitect
affinity cape certain facilities might parallels
You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there.
reform movement half
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
technology creating urban
Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.