The Colin Rowe Lecture Series: Kenneth Frampton

In an informal setting and in dialogue with experienced and imaginative guests, The Colin Rowe Lectures aim to discuss the role of the image in architecture, particularly the crucial role of architectural photography. The lectures are considered as an open forum of discussion for architects, photographers, students and the simply curious. All are welcome.

We are delighted to announce that our next lecture will be delivered by Kenneth Frampton CBE, one of the world's leading historians of modernist and contemporary architecture. Frampton was born in 1930 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He has taught at a number of leading institutions in the field, including the Royal College of Art in London, the ETH in Zürich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, EPFL in Lausanne and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio. From 1972 to 2019 he served as Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. He is the author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary architecture, has served on many international juries for architectural awards and building commissions, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2018 he was awarded the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale; in 2022 a RIBA honorary fellowship. His publications include Studies in Tectonic Culture (1992), Le Corbusier (2001 and 2024), Labour, Work and Architecture (2005), American Masterworks (2008), Kengo Kuma: Complete Works (2012) and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture (2013). In 2020 he published the fifth edition of his classic text Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980).

Image: Säynätsalo Town Hall by Alvar Aalto, RIBA Collections

Forum convened by Marco Iuliano (University of Liverpool) and Valeria Carullo (RIBA)

The lectures are a collaboration between the Centre for Architecture and Visual Arts at the University of Liverpool () and the Robert Elwall Photographs Collection at the RIBA ().

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