Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Kenneth Frampton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British architect Kenneth Frampton.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Kenneth Brian Frampton is a British architect, critic and historian. He is 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 United States since the mid-1980s. Frampton is regarded as one of the world's leading historians of modernist architecture.

British - Architect | Born: 1930

Source: Wikipedia

From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

Kenneth Frampton

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.

Kenneth Frampton

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.

Kenneth Frampton

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

Kenneth Frampton

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Kenneth Frampton

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